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THE 



TIPPECANOE AL 

FOR THE YEAR 

8 4 1. 





CONTAINING 

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF GENERAL WILLIAM 

HENRY HARRISON; WITH TESTIMONIALS OF HIS CONDUCT AND 

CHARACTER BY OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT 

UNDER HIM AND WITH HIM. THE BATTLES OF 

THEIR COUNTRY, AT TIPPECANOE, FORT 

MEIGS, AND THE THAMES. 

ALSO, 

EXTRACTS FROM THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS OF THE YEARS 1813—1815, IN RELATION 

TO THOSE BRILLIANT VICTORIES; TOGETHER WITH SUNDRY 

INTERESTING ANECDOTES AND PATRIOTIC SONGS. 



33h(lalielpiifa: 



M'CARTY & DAVIS ; THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT & CO. ; MARSHALL, WILLIAMS & BUTLER j 

G. W. MENTZ ic SON; HOGAN & THOMP.SON ; GRIGG & ELLIOTT; KAY & BROTHER. 

Stereotyped by L. Johnson. 



THE EDITOR'S ADDRESS 

TO ALL TRUE REPUBLICANS WHO CONSIDER THE VOICE OF PATRIOTISM MORE OBLIGA- 
TORV THAN THE DICTATION OF PARTV. 

The design of this publication was suggested by an original, firm, and efficient supporter of 
the administration of General Jackson, but now, an active and enthusiastic advocate of the election 
of General Harrison ; Because, being familiarly acquainted with the history of the eventful life 
of that illustrious individual, be knows him to be brave, honest, and tme ,- Because, relying 
upon contemporaneous and recorded evidence, in preference to the base and sordid discolourings 
of \he political paint brush, he has the fullest confidence in his intellectual and statesniarilike 
qualifications — his patriotic and self-sacrificing devotion to his country, and his incorruptible 
integrity; Because, being a workingman, he feelt the sad effects of the paralysis which an 
unholy combination of selfish and corrupt politicians have inflicted upon the industrious and 
productive classes of the community; Because, he is abundantly convinced that the blight, 
and the mildew, and the demoralization which now overshadow the land, have been occasioned 
by those who are determined to sacrifice this abused and insulted penple at the shrine of power, 
to enable the feeders at the public crib still to riot on the " spoils" of office, to peculate on the 
people's treasury, and to "go unwhipt of justice;" and Because, being a Jersey Blue, he is 
disgusted and alarmed, that the star of one of the old thirteen states, whose soil has been 
drenched with the blood of our Revolutionary fathers, should have been stricken from the na- 
tional CONSTELLATION by the hand of unuolt and lawless power. 

It was the original intention of the editor of this work to intersperse its pages with a larger 
amount of documentary evidence, but the necessity for such a course appeared to be superseded 
by the recent publication of the " Tippecanoe Text-Book," compiled by William Ogden Niles, Esq., 
a most valuable collection of recorded testimony, extracted chiefly from Niles's Register, which is 
admitted as legal evidence in our courts of justice, and which will unquestionably prove entirely 
satisfactory to all who are not wilfully blind, and whose vocation it is to employ the tarnished wea- 
pons of ingratitude and falsehood, in preference to the burnished blades ot' justice and of truth. 

For an ample refutation of the base slanders of a corrupt and venal press, and of the gross 
defamation perpetrated by the cowardly assassi?is who are endeavouring to stab a reputation 
which should be cherished by every patriotic heart, as shedding a bright lustre on our country's 
history, the attention of the reader is particularly called to "McAffee's History of the late War," 
published in 1816; to "Dawson's Life of Harrison," which is replete with documentary evi- 
dence ; to John M. Niles's (the present Postmaster-general) biography of Gen. Harrison ; and 
to "Hall's Life of Harrison," all published long before "the rock of the nation's sal- 
vation" was suggested as a candidate for the presidency ; all traced by the impartial pens of 
the respective historians, all of whom were members of the former Jackson party. 

The reader is also referred to the admirably written biographies of General Harrison by J. R. 
Jackson, Esq., and J. Washington Tyson, Esq., of Philadelphia, to that by S. J. Burr, Esq., of 
New York, to one by J. Hildreth, Esq., of Boston, and to a more recent publication at Cincin- 
nati, by Colonel C, S. Todd and B. Drake, Esq., the former of whom was one of General 
Harrison's aides-de-camp, during the last war, and, of course, intimately acquainted with him 
as a man and as a soldier. 

In the compilation of this almanac, the editor has been surrounded by such an accumulation 
of interesting and authentic matter, illustrative of the undaunted bravery, the consummate skill, 
the high intellectual and statesmanlike qualifications, the unsullied integrity, the noble humanity 
in peace and in war, the unbought plaudits of a grateful nation towards " the second Washing- 
ton," as he was characterized by the Democracy (f that day, and the ardent patriotism and self- 
devotion of the war-worn pat riot , whom the people have selected as their leader to fight the battles 
of liberty against th*? yiercenary troops of corruption, tyranny, and misrule, that a dilliculty 
has occurred in making the selection ; but should the work receive that encouragement, to which 
the public-spirited publishers conceive it to be entitled, desiring no other remuneration for the 
heavy expenditures incurred, than the expulsion from abused power of the corrupt and imbecile 
rulers who have prostrated the energies of the country, it will afford them much gratification so 
far to increase the size of the subsequent editions, as to admit of the publication of a vast addi- 
tional amount of interesting matter, which has been necessarily excluded. Our limited space 
admonishes us to close our remarks. In conclusion, then, we call upon all sincere Republicans, 
whether native or adopted, from whatever clime they may have arrived upon our shores in search 
of a safe asylum from the oppressions of the old world, to come up to the rescue of our bleed- 
ing and power-ridden country. We conjure them by the blood of our Revolutionary fathers, 
by the sacred love of liberty which our adopted fellow-citizens have brought from the despotisms 
of Europe, to vindicate a violated Constitution — to teach the bloated rulers of an oppressed people 
the terrors of the ballot box, when freemen are roused by injury and insult — to bring back the 
government to the halcyon days of the Republic, to demonstrate to the world that the people 
»re fit for self-government, and that they are resolved that our fair land shall ever remain " The 
land of the Free and the home of the Brave." 



NOTES TO THE READER. 



First. — The calculations of this Almanac are 
made to mean solar time chiefly — excepting the 
sun's declination, and rising and setting of the 
sun — which are calculated to apparent time, to 
wiiicli add the equation in table page 4, when 
the clock is fast, and subtract when slow, for 
mean or clock time, as the table directs. 

Second. — The time of high water at Philadel- 
phia, is so computed as to serve either for morn- 
ing or evening ; exact enough for common use; 
the morning flood being about 12 minutes earlier 
than the time in the tide column, and that of the 
evening as much later. 

Third. — The sun's declination is fitted to the 
meridian of Philadelphia, for the noon of each 
day in the year. 

Fourth. — As the days end at midnight, the 
rising, setting, and southing of the moon, when 
after that time, is found against the succeeding 
day, so on the night of (or following) the 2d of 
the first month, (January,) the moon sets at 2 h. 
69 m. after midnight, viz. : in the morning of the 
3d, not at 1 h. 46 m. which is the time of her 
setting the preceding morning. 

Fifth. — The rising, setting, or southing of a 
star, may be carried several days backward, by 
adding, or forward by subtracting, four minutes 



per day. For instance, on the 9th of the first 
month, (January,) Sirius is south at 11 h. 12 m. 
adding 12 minutes for three days sooner, we 
have 11 h. 24 m. for the southing on tl>e 6th, 
and deducting 8 m. for two days later, leaves 
11 h. 4 m. for that on the 11th of the same 
month. 

Sixth. — The time of Alioth's passing over the 
meridian, or when a plumb line apparenlky cuts 
both the pole star and Alioth, is given for the 
first six months above the pole, and for the lasi 
six months below it, for o days in every month, 
and may be readily known for any day by the pre- 
ceding note. These two stars will be visibly co- 
incident with a level east and west line at 5 h. 
59 m. before and after Alioth passes the meri- 
dian — but for common use say 6 hours. TIhis we 
may regulate timepieces to a minute, or tell the 
time without them. The Pole Star is on the 
meridian 12 minutes later than Alioth; when a 
true meridian line may be drawn by it, and the 
magnetic variation thereby determined. 

Alioth is the first star ni the tail of the great 
Bear, viz.: that next to the sqnaie, m it is the 
third star of the seven, commonly called the 
wagon or pluugh, counting towards those two of 
them which are denominated the pointcrj. 



ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON. 



fn the year 1841 there will be four eclipses 
of the sun, and two of the moon. 

1st. Of the sun, on the 22d day of the first 
month, (January,) at 12 h. 14 m. afternoon — in- 
visible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will only 
be visible in a small portion of the southern 
ocean. 

2d. Of the moon, on the 5th day of the second 
month, (February,) at 9 h. 9 m. afternoon — 
visible and total at Philadelphia — as follows, 
viz.: — 

h. m. 
First contact with penumbra at 6 23 

First contact with dark shadow 7 19 

first total immersion in dark shadow 8 16i 
Middle of eclipse 9 5} 

Last total immersion in dark shadow 9 54 
Last contact with dark shadow 10 5\i 

Last contact with penumbra 11 48 _ 

Magnitude of the eclipse about 201 digits, on 
the southern limb. 

3d. Of the sun, on the 21st day of the second 
month, (February,) at 7 h. 14 m. morning — invi- 
sible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will be visi- 
ble in the North Atlantic, Iceland, and East 
Greenland. 



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4th. Of the sun, on the ISth day of the se- 
venth month, (July,) at 9 h. 24 m. morning — 
invisible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will be 
visible in BafBn's Bay, Greenland, Iceland, Rus- 
sia in Europe, Prussia, the Northern Ocean, 
Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Finland, Italy, Ger- 
many, Scotland, and the North of France. 

5th. Of the moon, on the second day of the 
eighth month, (August,) at 5 h. morning — partly- 
visible at Philadelphia — as follows, viz. : 

h. m. 
First contact with penumbra at I 

First contact with dark shadow 3 

First total immersion in dark shadow 4 
Middle of eclipse ,') 

The moon sets eclipsed 5 

Magnitude of the eclipse about 20 digits, on 
the southern limb. 

6th. Of the sun, on the 16th day of the eighth 
month, (August,) at 4 h. 31 m. afternoon — invi- 
sible at Philadelphia. This eclipse will be visi- 
ble in the South Pacific Ocean, and part of the 
Southern Ocean. 

Venus ($) will be the evening star until the 
14th day of the fifth month, (May.) Then morn- 
ing star the remainder of the year. 




CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES. 



Dominical letter, - . - 
Lunar cycle, or golden number, 
Epact, 



C. I Solar cycle, - 
18 Roman indiction, 
7 Julian period, 



2 

14 

6564 



March, 
JnD«, 



EMBER DAYS. 

3, 5 and 6 I September, 
2, 4 and o ' December, 



15, 17 and IS 
15, 17 and 18 
3 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 
MOVEABLE FEASTS. 



Septuagesima Sunday, - 
Quing, or Shrove Sunday, 
Ash Wed. or 1st day of Lent, - 
Mid-Lent Sunday, 
Palm Sunday, _ ■ . 
Easter Sunday, - - - 



Feb. 7 

Feb. 21 

Feb. 24 

March 21 

April 4 

April 11 



Low Sunday, 
Rogation Sunday, - 
Asc. day, or Holy Thurs. 
Whit-Sunday, 
Trinity Sunday, - 
Advent Sunday, - 



April 13 

May 16 
May 20 
May 30 
June 6 
Nov. 28 



The year 1841, after the birth of Christ, is I The 6554th year of the Julian period 

The 2616th year of the Olympiads, or I The 25S8th Nabonassarian year. 

The 1st year of the 654th Olympiad, beginning I The 5600th year of the Jews. 

*" -^^^y- I The 6S44th year of the world, or Anno Mundi. 



d Table of the equation of time, for regulating clocks and ivatches for the year 1841. 
Note.— Fast clock, too fast, that is, your clock to be set right, must be so much faster than the 
sun dial ; slow clock, too slow, that is your clock must be so much slower than the sun dial. 



Days 



1 

3 

5 

7 

9 

11 

13 

15 

17 

19 

21 

23 

25 

27 

29 

31 



January, 
min. sec. 



4 fast 4 

5 

5 54 

6 47 

7 37 

8 35 

9 10 

9 54 

10 34 

11 12 

11 46 

12 18 

12 46 

13 11 

13 33 

13 52 



February, 
min. sec 



14 fast 

14 13 

14 23 

14 30 

14 34 

14 34 

14 32 

14 26 

14 18 

14 7 

13 54 

13 37 

13 19 

12 58 



March, 
min. sec. 



12 fast 34 

12 9 

11 42 

11 13 

10 42 

10 11 

9 37 

9 3 

8 28 

7 53 

7 17 

6 40 

6 3 

5 26 

4 49 

4 12 



April, 
min. sec. 



3 fast 54 


3.... 


.18 


2.... 


.42 


2..., 


. 7 


1.... 


.33 


1.... 


. 





.28 


slow 2 


0.... 


.31 


0.... 


.59 


1.... 


.24 


1.... 


.48 


2.... 


.16 


2..., 


.30 


2.... 


.48 



May. 
min. sec. 



3 slow 5 

3 19 

3 31 

3 40 

3 48 

3 53 

3 55 

3 55 

3 53 

3 49 

3 42 

3 34 

3 23 

3 10 

2 55 

2 39 



June, 
min. sec. 



2 slow 31 

2 12 

1 52 

1 31 

1 8 

44 

20 

fast 5 

31 

.57 

1 23 

1 49 

2 15 

2 40 

3 -i 



Days. 



1 

3 

5 

7 

9 

11 

13 

15 

17 

19 

21 

23 

25 

27 

29 

31 



July, 
min. sec. 



3 fast 28 

3 .50 

4 11 

4 31 

4 50 

5 6 

5 22 

5 35 

5 46 

5 56 

6 3 

6 7 

6 10 

6 10 

6 7 

6 2 



August, j 


mm. 


sec. 


5 fast 59 1 


5.. 


..50 


5.. 


..39 


5.. 


..26 


5,. 


..11 


4.. 


..53 


4.. 


..33 


4.. 


..12 


3.. 


..46 


3.. 


..20 


2.. 


..52 


2.. 


..22 


1.. 


..50 


1.. 


..16 


0.. 


..41 


0.. 


.. 5 



September, 
min. sec. 

slow 14 

52 

1 31 

2 12 

2 52 

3 34 

4 15 

4 57 

5 39 

6 21 

7 3 

7 45 

8 26 

9 7 

9 46 



October, 
min. sec. 



] slow 25 


11.. 


.. 2 


11.. 


.,38 


12.. 


,,13 


12... 


..46 


13.. 


,.17 


13.. 


,.45 


14.. 


,,12 


14.. 


,.37 


14.. 


.,59 


15.. 


..18 


15.. 


..35 


15.. 


..50 


16., 


,. 1 


16.. 


..10 


16,. 


..15 



November, 
min. sec. 



16 slow 17 

16 18 

16 15 

16 9 

15 59 

15 46 

15 30 

15 10 

14 47 

14 20 

13 50 

13 18 

12 42 

12 3 

11 22 



December, 
min. sec. 



10 slow 37 

9 50 

9 1 

8 10 

7 16 

6 21 

5 24 

4 26 

3 27 

3 27 

1 27 

27 

fast 33 

1 32 

2 31 

3 28 



How to set a clock or watch by this table. For example ; January 1st, I find by looking into 
the table, that the clock to be right must be 4 minutes 4 seconds faster th^in the sun dial. There- 
fore, I set her so much faster, and so of the rest. Twelve o'clock is the best time to set a clock 
or watch by a sun dial. 

Note.- -A 'un dial shows solar or apparent time, but a clock, &c. should be set to equal or 
mean tune, as tho table directs. 



1841.] 



FIRST MONTH— JANUARY. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


O Full Moon 7 10 


15 MorninjT Cold hiLrh wind. 


([ Last Quarter 14 13 
9 New Moon 23 13 
J) First Quarter 30 1 


36 Afterno 

14 Afterno 

8 Morninf 


on Sr 


low, or rain, 
low, or rain, 
lir and frosty. 


an Si 


r F£ 


S 


k: 




Sun 


j Sun 


1 O's 


ys 


Moon , Moon H. W. 


1 


f^ 


REMARKS. 


rises. 


1 sets. 


dec. S. 


place. 


sets. 


south. Philada. 


6 




H. M. 


H. M. 


a / 




M. H. 


H. M. H. M. 


Circum. O i" perigee 


723437 


22 5<i 


t20 


12 37 


1 6 37 8 25 


2 


7 


Alioth on Mer. .5 55. 


7 23 4 37 


22 54 


|« 4 


146 


729 917 


3 


C 

1 ^ 


1st. S. of N.Yr.— ]) 's age lid 


7 23 


:4 37'22 48 


18 


2 59 


, 82510 13 


4 


'2 


B's eye south 9 23. 


7 22 


,4 38 22 42 


n 2 


4 16 


, 92811 16 


5 


'? 


])'s lat. 4(1. N. 


7 22 


;4 38 22 35 


17 


5 31 


10 3412 22 


6 


it 


Epiphany — C perigee. 


721 


4 39 22 28 


Z5 3 


6 3811 4112 46 


7 


5 


? sets 8 4. 


721 


4 39 22 20 


18 


RISESMORN 


153 


8 


6 

1 « 


$ rises 12 19. 


7 20 


4 40 22 12 


SI 3 


6 1912 44 


2 56 


9 


7 


Sirius south 1 1 12. 


7 20 


4 4022 4 


18 


7 37 


1 45 


3 57 


10 


C 


1st Sun. af. Epiph. <? D 


7 19 


4 41 


21 55 


^'^ 3 


8 52 


2 38; 4 50 


11 


2 


Alioth on Mer. 5 16. 


718 


4 42 


21 45 


17 


10 3 


3 28, 5 40 


12 


3 


P) rises 5 42. 


7 18 


4 42 


21 36 


- 


11 11 


4 15 6 27 


13 


4 


4 rises 4 23. 


717 


4 432125 


14 


MORN 


5 0, 7 12 


14 


5 


D'sage22d. ^JC 


7 16 


4 4421 15 


26 


12 17 


545; 7 57 


15 


6 


7 -X-'s south 7 47, 


7 15 


4 45 21 4 


K 9 


122 


6 30 8 42 


16 


7 


3 runs low. 


7 15 


4 45 20 52 


21 


2 25 


7 16| 9 28 


17 


C 


2d Sun. aft. Epiph 4 c^ C 


7 14 


4 46 20 41 


$ 3 


3 28 


8 51017 


18 





Spica TT^ rises 1 1 47. 


7 13 


4 47 


20 28 


15 


4 27 


8 55 11 7 


19 


3 


C apogee P, ^ ([; 


7 12 


4 4820 16 


27 


521 


9 461158 


20 


4 


O enter a* 


711 


4 49 20 3 


V? 9 


6 8 


10 3612 24 


21 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 4 34. 


711 


4 4919 49 


21 


6 48 


1126 


1 14 


22 


6 


O eclipsed invis. "^ 


7 10 


4 5019 36 


^ 3 


SETS. 


AF.14 


2 2 


23 


7 


Vincent 


7 9 


4 5119 22 


15 


6 14 


12 59 


2 47 


24 


C 


3d Sun. aft. Epiph. ? d^^ 


7 8 


4 52il9 7 


27 


7 16 


142 


3 30 


26 


2 


St. Paul's conv. 


7 7 


4 53,18 52 


X 9 


819 


2 24 


4 12 


26 


3 


5 's lat. 3 d. N. ? (^ ([ 


7 6 


4 5418 37 


21 


9 21 


3 6\ 


4 54 


21 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 4 9. 


7 5 


4 5518 22 


T 4 


10 26 


3 48 


5 36 


28 


5 


Day 9 h. 52 m. long. 


7 4 


4 5618 6 


17 


11 34 


434' 


6 22 


29 


6 


Arcturus rises 10 6. 


7 3! 


4 5717 50 


« 


MORN 


5 22\ 


7 10 


30 


7 


]) runs high. 


7 2 


4 581734 


14 


12 44 


6 14 


8 2 


31 


C 


1th S. aft. Epiph. :])'sage9d. 


7 1 


4 59,17 17 


27 


153 


7 12 


9 



The editor of the Louisville Journal has promised, if we will carry New York, to charter a 
thunder-c oud to let off its artillery in honour of the glorious event. Let him get his thunder- 
cloud ready.— Syracuse (N. Y.) Gaz. 

'Tis all ready, sir. We have got it chained to the peak of one of the Silver Creek knobs 
across the river. It occasionally gets impatient and roars like a mad bull fastened to a post, but 
we shall keep It safe until we hear from New York, and then perchance let it loose and hid it 
send forth such thunders as the af&ighted Van Burenites will mistake for « the peals of the last 
trumpet. *^ 

Mr. Clay is undoubtedly a sharp politician. — Globe. 

Ay, sir— he may be a sharp politician, but you are a sharper. 



1841.] 



SECOND MONTH— FEBRUARY. 



[28 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 



O Full Moon 
([ Last Quarter 
New Moon 



5d. 
13 
21 



J) First Quarter '28 



9h. 9 m. 

6 25 

7 U 
1 16 



Afternoon. , 
Morning. . . 
Morning. . , 
Afternoon . 



. Perhaps rain, or snow. 
.Stormy. 
. Stormy. 
.Snow, or rain. 



s 


i^ 




Sun 


Sun 


G's 


D's 


Moon 


Moon 


H. W. 


REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. 


dec. S. 


place. 


sets. 


south. 


Philada. 


Q 


2 


? sets 8 56. 


H. M. H. M. 

6 59 5 1 


' 




H. M. 


H. M. 


H. M. 


1 


17 


nl2 


311 


8 14 


10 2 


2 


3 


5)'s lat. 4° N. 


6 585 2 


16 43 


26 


419 


919 


11 7 


3 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 3 39. 


6 57 


5 3 


16 25 


2511 


5 19 


10 23 


12 11 


4 


5 


(J perigee — day increased 58 m. 


6 56 


5 4 


16 7 


26 


6 8 


1125 


12 35 


5 


6 


5) eclipsed, vis. — '^'s sup. ^^ O 


6 55 


5 5 


15 49 


all 


RISES 


MORN 


1 37 


6 


7 


B.'s eye south 7 5. 


6 54 


5 6 


15 30 


26 


6 25 


1221 


2 33 


7 


C 


Septuag. S.— J)'s age 16 d. 


6 53 


5 7 


1511 


^}l\0 


7 38 


1 14 


3 26 


8 


2 


^ rises 11 15. 


651 


5 9 


14 52 


25 


8 50 


2 3 


4 15 


9 


3 


Day 10 h, 20 m. long. 


6 50 


5 10 


14 33 


- 8 


9 59 


2 50 


5 2 


10 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 3 11. 


6 49 


511 


14 14 


22 


11 7 


3 37 


5 49 


11 


5 


Jd(L-3)'slat.5°S. 


6 48 


512 


13 54 


K 5 


MORN 


4 23 


6 35 


12 


6 


5 runs low. 


6 47 


5 13 


13 34 


17 


12 13 


5 10 


7 22 


13 


7 


4 rises 2 45. 


6 46 


5 14 


13 14 


29 


1 17 


5 59 


811 


14 


C 


Sexag. S. — Valentine — 4 ^ (5 


6 44 


516 


12 54 


/12 


2 18 


6 49 


9 i 


15 


2 


Arcturus rises 8 58. 


6 43 


517 


12 33 


24 


3 15 


7 40 


9 52 


16 


3 


([ apogee — f? c! <I 


6 42 


5 18 


12 12 


vj 5 


4 5 


831 


10 43 


17 


4 


3's age 26 d. 


6 41 


5 19 


1151 


17 


4 47 


921 


11 33 


18 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 2 40. 


6 39 


521 


11 30 


29 


5 23 


10 9 


12 21 


19 


6 


enters )£ 


6 38 


5 22 


11 9 


^11 


5 53 


10 55 


12 43 


20 


7 


(? rises 3 25. 


6 37 


5 23 


10 47 


23 


6 20 


1139 


127 


21 


C 


Quinq. S. — eclipsed invis. 


6 35 


5 25 


10 25 


K 6 


SETS. 


AF.22 


2 10 


22 


2 


Spica ^ rises 9 26. 


6 34 


5 26 


10 4 


18 


7 13 


1 5 


2 53 


23 


3 


Day 10 h. 54 m. long— ^ d }p 


6 33 


5 27 


9 42 


T 1 


8 18 


147 


3 35 


24 


4 


Ash Wed.— ys lat. 4° N. 


6 32 


5 28 


919 


14 


9 25 


2 32 


4 20 


25 


5 


7 ^'s set 12 29—? ^ d 


6 30 


5 30 


8 57 


27 


10 35 


319 


5 7 


26 


6 


Alioth on Mer. 2 10. 


6 29 


531 


8 35 


«10 


1147 


4 10 


5 58 


21 


7 


5 runs high. 


6 28 


5 32 


8 12 


24 


MORN 


5 5 


6 53 


28 


C 


1st S. in liCnt — ^fs a. 7 d. 


6 27 


5 33 


7 50 


n 8 


12 59 


6 5 


7 53 



David Rnhl) has been appointed receiver of the land-office at Indianapolis, and Henry Steele 
postmaster in Loudoun county, Virginia. Rubb and Steele.' What capital names for a pair 
of sul)-treasureis! — Prentice. 

It is said that agents of the Government are in New York trying to dispose of the Treasury 
notes. — Philadelphia pr.per, 

Tlicse agents, pedling sliin plasters in the name and behalf of the Government of the United 
States, remind us of the Turkish fruiterers who w.ilk through the streets of Stamboul, solemnly 
exclaiming — " in the name of the prophet— ^Z^.v .'"— Prentice. 

Mr. Wright is at least tlie equal of Mr. Webster in tearing away from a question the web ot 
sophistry. — Genri^ia. Cdtnti/ritionali.yt. 

No he is not. Mr. Wright is tolerably acute, but he can never make a web stir.— Prentice, 

Wc have reached the end of the whig triumph. — Globe, 
Which end '' — Prentice. 



1841.] 



THIRD MONTH— MARCH. 



[31 Days, 



MOON'S PHASES. 


Full Moon 7 d. 8 h. 2G tn. Morning. . . Perhaps snow, or rain. 


d Last Quarter U 11 17 Afternoon. .Perhaps snow, or rain 


New Moon 22 9 27 Afternoon. .Perhaps rain, or snow. 


J) First Quarter 29 9 41 Afternoon. .Perhaps rain, or snow. 


^ ■ 






Sun Sun 


O's 


])'s 


Moon 


Moon H. W. 


*^ 


'^ 


REMARKS. 


rises, sets. 


dec. S. 


place. 


sets. 


south. Philada. 


Q 


p 
2 




». M. H. M. 


' 




M. H. 


H. M. H. M. 


1 


David — day increased 2 h. 


j^5^' 


7 27 


2,2 


2 8 7 6, 8 54 


2 


3 


? sets 9 42. (^ 


3 24 5 36 


7 4 


25 6 


3 8 8 9, 9 57 


3 


4 


Ember day — y's gr. elong. 


6 23 5 37 


6 41 


21 


4 1 9 91057 


4 


5 


(^ perigee — ?'s gr. elong. 


6 21' 


5 39 


6 18 


SI 5 


4 4310 811 54 

1 ,-^ 


5 


6 


I rises 10 0. 


6 20 


5 40 


'obb 


20 


5 1811 012 18 


6 


7 


Alioth on Met. 1 40. 


6 19 


5 41 


5 31 


ti^ 4 


5 48n 50 1 12 


7 


C 


2d S. in Lent. J'sageUd. 


618 


5 42 


5 8 


18 


RISES MORN 2 2 


8 


2 


7^'sset 11 47. 


6 16 


5 44 


4 45 


^ 2 


7 36 


12 38 2 50 


9 


3 


4 rises 1 25—4 D O 


6 15 


5 45 


4 21 


16 


8 45 


125 


3 37 


10 


4 


])'siat.5d. S. }Jt(^0 


6 13 


5 47 


3 58 


29 


9 53 


2 12 


4 24 


11 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 1 22— J sta. 


6 12 


5 48 


3 34 


rn.1311 1 


3 


5 12 


12 


6 


5 runs low 


6 11 


5 49 


311 


2b MORN 


3 49 


6 1 


13 


7 


Regulus south 10 24. 


6 9 


5 51 


2 47 


t 8 


12 5 


4 40 


6 32 


U 


C 


3d Sun. in Lent — 4 ^ (^ 


6 8 


bbt 


2 24 


20 


1 5 


5 32 


7 44 


15 


2 


Day llh. 46 m.— Tpcj C t^ 


6 7 


5 53 


2 


^rs 2 


157 


6 23 


8 35 


16 


3 


C apogee. 


6 6 


5 54 


1 36 


13 


2 42 


713 


9 25 


17 


4 


St. Patrick— 5's age 24 d. 


6 4 


5 56 


1 12 


25 


321 


8 3 10 15 


18 


5 


5 'slat. 1 d. S. 


6 3 


5 57 


49 


AW / 


3 54 


84911 1 


19 


6 


Alioth on Mer. 12 53. 


6 2 


5 58 


25 


^19 


421 


9 34 


1146 


20 


7 


O enters '^ — Spring com. 


6 


6 


s. 1 


K 2 


4 46 


1017 


12 5 


21 


C 


Mid. Lent S.— 5? in Inf. ^ Q 


5 59 


6 1 


N.22 


14 


5 9 


11 0:12 48 


22 


2 


fi'c^C-^dC 


5 57 


6 3 


46 


27 


5 31 


1143 


131 


23 


3 


f? rises 1 30 — fp n 


5 56 


6 4 


1 10 


tIO 


SETS. 


'AF.29 


2 17 


24 


4 


7 ■)(•' s set 10 49. 


5 55 


6 5 


133 


23 


8 24 


1 15 


3 3 


r^ 


5 


? sets 10 8. 


5 53 


6 7 


157 


« 7 


9 35 


2 6 


3 54 


26 


6 


5 runs high—? i C 


bb% 


6 8 


2 20 


21 


10 50 


3 1 


4 49 


27 


7 


Antares rises 11 19—? ^ V^ 


5 51 


6 9 


2 44 


n 5 


11 59 


3 59 


5 47 


2e 


;c 


5th S, in Lent — ]) 's age 6d. 


5 50J6 10 


3 7 


19 


MORN 


5 


6 48 


oc 


2 


Day 1 2 h. 24 m.— ]) 's lat.3°N 


5 48.6 12 


3 31 


s 3 


1 3 


6 2 


7 50 


3C 


) 3 


Alioth on Mer. 12 U— ?c^? 


5 47 


,6 12 


3 54 


17 


1 57 


7 2 


8 50 


31 


4 


^ perigee. 


5 46 


►|6 1^ 


. 4 17 


SI 1 


2 42| 7 59 


9 47 



Mr. Van Buren is but a .shadow of General Jackson. — Vt. Sfatesman. 

And we must say, that the old General casts a smaller shadow than any other grown man that 
we have ever seen or heard of in all our lives. — Limisvillc Gazette. 

The New York Times thinks that the sub-treasury is dead. "We are certain that many of 
the sub-treasurers are fur gone. — Prentice. 

A violent Van Bureiiite wrote to us on Saiurday, abusing us for calling his party loco-focos, 
and biddin;:; us " go to h — ." Really wo cannot oblige him in this matter. If we were to do 
so, we should be in the very hot-bed of loco-focoism. — Ibid. 

The Van Buren organ at Maysville calls the reading of Mr. Benton's sub-treasury speech, 
**a task." We hope that Bombastes will Uke the compliment. — Ibid. 



1841.] 



FOURTH MONTH— APRIL. 



[30 Days. 



MOO N'S 

O Full Moon 5d. 8 h. 20 m. 

d Last Quarter 13 4 45 

Q New Moon 21 9 36 

D First Quarter 28 5 56 



PHASES. 

Afternoon. .Perhaps rain, or snow. 
Afternoon. .Fair — Changeable. 
Morning. . .Changeable. 
Morning. . .Rain. 



^ 


^ 




Sun 


Sun 1 O's 1 D's 


Moon 


Moon 


H. W. 




REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. 


dec. N. 


place. 


sets. 


south. 


Philada. 


Q 


p 
5 




H. M. 


H. M. ! o ' 




H. M. 


H. M. 


H. M. 


1 


J) in node. 


5 44 6 16 4 40 


15 


3 18 


8 51 


10 39 


2 


6 


? sets 10 10.—? sta. 


5 43 6 17 


5 3 


29 


3 48 


9 42 


1130 


3 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 11 55. 


5 42 


6 18 


5 26 


Ti;jl3 


4 16 


10 30 


12 18 


4 


C 


Palm Sun.— J) 'slat 3° S. 


5 40 


6 20 


5 49 


27 


4 40 


11 16 


12 42 


5 


2 


Day 12 h. 43 m.— 4 sta. 


5 39 


6 21 


6 12 


:^11 


RISES 


MORN 


128 


6 


3 


Regulus south 8 57. 


5 38 


6 22 


6 35 


24 


7 34 


12 3 


215 


7 


4 


$ rises 7 29.—^ ^ a 


5 37 


6 23 


6 57 


"i 8 


8 42 


12 50 


3 2 


8 


5 


5 runs low. 


5 35 


6 25 


7 20 


21 


9 48 


1 39 


3 51 


9 


6 


Good Friday. — J) 's age 18 d. 


5 34 


6 26 


7 42 


t 3 


10 51 


2 30 


4 42 


10 


7 


Day 12 h. 54 m.— 4 ^ d 


5 33 


6 21 


8 4 


15 


1148 


3 22 


5 34 


11 


C 


Easter Sun. — ^ (j (J — ^ sta. 


5 316 29 


8 26 


28 


MORN 


4 14 


6 26 


12 


2 


Alioth on Mer. 1 1 22. 


5 30,6 30 


8 48 


Vf 9 


12 36 


5 5 


7 17 


13 


3 


(J apogee. 


5 29 6 31 


910 


21 


1 IJS 


5 55 


8 7 


14 


4 


4 rises 114. y c^ ? 


5 28 6 32 


9 31 


^ 3 


153 


6 43 


8 55 


15 


5 


7 -^f' s set 9 29. 


5 26 a 34 


9 53 


15 


2 22 


7 27 


9 39 


16 


6 


Antaris rises 10 17. 


5 2o6S5 


10 14 


27 


2 48 


811 


10 23 


17 


7 


$ 8 O—fs gr. elong. 


5 24 


6 36 


10 35 


X 9 


3 9 


8 54 


11 6 


18 


C 


Low Sun. f^ dd 


5 23 


6 37 


10 56 


22 


3 34 


9 36 


1148 


19 


2 


Spica n^ S. 1 1 26.—? ri (5 


521 


6 39 


11 17 


T 5 


3 57 


1021 


12 9 


20 


3 


O enters ^ — J)'s age 29 d. 


5 20 6 40 


1138 


19 


4 21 


11 7 


12 55 


21 


4 


3)'s lat. 5° N. 


5 19 6 41 


1158 


« 2 


4 48 


11 57 


145 


22 


5 


J) runs high. — ? sta. 


5 18 6 42 


12 18 


16 


SETS. 


AF.51 


2 39 


23 


6 


Alioth o« Mer. 10 41. — ? (;^(J 


5 17 6 43 


12 38 


n 1 


9 47 


1 50 


3 38 


24 


7 


I? rises 11 21. 


5 15 6 45 


12 58 


15 


10 54 


2 52 


4 40 


25 


C 


2d S. af. East.— (5 perigee. 


5 14 


6 46 


13 18 


29 


11 53 


3 55 


5 43 


26 





? sets 9 14. 


5 13 


6 47 


13 37 


2514 


MORN 


4 57 


6 45 


21 


3 


Dayl3h. 36 m.— ])'sl. 1°N. 


5 12 6 48 


13 56 


28 


12 41 


5 54 


7 43 


28 


4 


7 ^'s set 8 41. 


5 11 649 


14 15 


J112 


1 19 


6 49 


8 37 


29 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 10 18. 


5 10 6 50 


14 34 


26 


152 


7 38 


9 26 


30 


6 


3 's age 9 d. 


5 9651 


1452 


njjlO 


2 19 


8 26 


10 14 



Conservatium vs. Destructivdsm. — The great issue is now made up between the " Loco-Foco 
of half a million," who wields power to secure "spoils," and the man of the people, who has 
been tried in every way, and failed in none, and who has, in the better days of the republic, 
disbursed millions of the public money, without any part of it sticking to his hands ! The 
issue is between Conservatism and Destructiveism — in a word, between William H. Harrison 
and Martin Van Buren. 

The following toast was offered by John C. Montgomery, Esq., at the HAnnTsojr and Tyler 
celebration at Harrisburg, of the Anniversary of the birth day of the IMMORTAL WASH- 
INGTON, and was received with great enthusiasm. We recommend it to every patriotic voter 
in the country. 

"The Union of all true Republicans for the sake of the Union." 



1841.] . 



FIFTH MONTH— MAY. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


O Full Moon 5d. 9 h. 


6 m. Morning Changeable. 


a Last Quarter 13 9 


48 Morning Changeable. 


tt New Moon 20 6 


69 Afternoon Perhaps rain. 




]) First Quarter 27 1 


40 Afternoon Rainy. 


^ 


^' 




Sun 


Sun 


O's D's 


Moon 


Moon H. W. 


(=5 


REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. 


dec. N. place. 


sets. 


south. Philada. 


Q 


Q 

7 




i. M. 


a. M. 


' 


1 


H. M. 


H. M. 11. M. 


1 


St. Philip — St. James. 


5 7 


3 53 


15 10 


24 2 43, 9 12 11 


2 


C 


2(1 S. af. East. 


5 6 


S 54' 


15 28 


- 7 


3 8' 9 57 1145 


3 


2 


D's lat. 4° S.-$ i C 


5 5 


6 55' 


15 46 


20 3 3310 4412 32 


4 


3 


Lyra south 3 47. 


5 4 


6 56! 


16 3 


VI 31 3 5911 3112 56 


5 


4 


5 runs low. 


5 3 


6 57 


1621 


16 RISES MORN 


143 


6 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 9 52. 


5 2 


6 58, 


16 38 


29 


8381221 


2 33 


7 


6 


^ south 10 16. 


5 1 


6 59, 


16 54 


/ll 


9 37 


1 13 


3 25 


8 


7 


? sets 8 1— 4cf (L— bdd 


5 


7 


17 10 


24; 


10 29 


2 5^ 


417 


9 


C 


4th S. af. East.— 3 's age 18 d. 


4 59 


7 l' 


17 27 


vj 6 


11 13; 


2 57 


5 9 


10 


2 


(J apogee. 


4 58 


7 2 


17 42 


17, 


11 50! 


3 47 


5 59 


11 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 9 32. 


4 57 


7 3 


17 58 


29morn| 


4 36 


6 48 


12 


4 


Arcturus south 10 49. 


4 56 


7 41813 




12211 


52li 


7 33 


13 


5 


4 rises 9 0. 


4 55 


7 518 28 


23 


12 49, 


6 5 


817 


U 


6 


Lyra south 3 8.— ?'s Inf. c$ 


4 54 


7 618 42 


X 5 


1 13 


6 47 


8 59 


15 


7 


Day 14 h. 14 m.— ])'s 1. 3°N. 


4 53 


7 7,18 57 


17 


135 


7 29 9 41 


16 


C 


Rog. S.— }JI cJ C— 5)'s a. 25 d. 


4 52 


7 819 11 


T 


157 


811 1023 


17 


2 


Spica rt^ south 9 38. 


4 51 


7 919 24 


13 


2 21 


85711 9 


18 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 9 5. 


4 50 


7 10,19 37 


27 


2 48 


9 4511 57 


19 


4 


5) runs high.— 5 i ? 


4 50 


7 1019 50 


«11 


3 18 


10 3712 25 


20 


5 


Asc. day—? i (J—? c^ C 


4 49 


711 


20 3 


25 


3 55 


11 35 


123 


21 


6 


O enters n 


4 48 


7 12 


20 15 


nlO 


SETS. 


AF.37 


2 25 


22 


7 


C perigee. 


4 47 


7 13 


20 27 


25 


9 42 


142 


3 30 


23 


C 


S. af. Asc. d.— 9 in ^ 


4 46 


7 14 


20 39 


Z5 9 


10 35 


2 46 


4 34 


24 


2 


Bootis south 10 31. 


4 46 


7 14 


20 50 


24 


11 19 


3 47 


5 35 


25 


3 


[? in sup. i 


4 45 


7 15 


21 1 


SI 9 


11 53 


4 44 


6 3^ 


26 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 8 33. 


4 44 


7 16 


21 11 


23 


MORN 


5 35 


, 7 23 


27 


5 


Day 14h. 34 m.— J)'sl. 2° S. 


4 43 


7 17 


21 21 


n;j 7 


12 21 


6 24 


812 


2g 


6 


^ rises 9 1. 


4 43 


717 


21 31 


20 


12 48 


7 10 


8 58 


2S 


7 


^sta. 


4 42 


71& 


21 40 


- 4 


1 12 


7 56 


9 44 


3C 


IC 


1 Whit-Sunday .— J c^d 


4 42 


7ie 


52148 


17 


137 


8 4110 29 


31 


2 


3) 'sage 11 d. 


4 41 


71S 


215$ 


w 


2 2 


92711 15 



Opinion of SIMON SNYDER, the idol of the Democracy of Pennsylvania during the 
last war. 

"The blessings of thousands of women and chiidhen nf.scrEn trom the scalping 

KNIFE OF THE DUTHLESS SAVAGE OF THE WILDERNESS, AND FHOM THE KTILL MORE SAVAflK 

Proctor, rest on HARRISON, and his gallant armt." — Sirrnjn Sni/der''8 Message to 
the Legislature, Dec. 10, 1813. 

The administration begs Congress for more money, but, in the most arbitrary manner, dictates 
the amount that must be bestowed and the time and manner of raising it. What would be 
thought of a beggar in the street who should assume so insolent a tone 1 — Prentice. 

The administration party is up and doing. — Globe. 

Ay, doing before a hot fire. It will Boon bs done. — Prentice. 



1841.] 



SIXTH MONTH— JUNE. 



[uO Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 

O Full Moon 3 d. 10 h. 57 m. 
C Last Quarter 11 10 46 
• New Moon 19 2 32 
]) First Quarter 25 10 13 



Afternoon Perhaps rain. 

Afternoon Perhaps rain. 

Morning Cold, with showers. 

Afternoon Perhaps rain. 



— ^ 


^ 




Sun 


Sun 1 O's 


ys 


Moon 


Moon [ H. W. 




REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. 1 dec. N. 


place. 


sets. 


south. Philada. 


Q 


3 




H. M. 


H. M. 1 ° ' 




H. M. 


H. M. 1 H. M. 


1 


J) runs low. 


4 40 


7 2022 6 


13 


2 30 


10 1512 3 


2 


4 


Ember day— ])'s lat, 5° S. 


4 40 7 20 


22 14 


25 


3 2 


11 7 


12 27 


3 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 8 — ? sta. 


4 39 7 21 


22 22 


t 8 


3 42 


1158 


1 19 


4 


6 


Day 14h.43m.— 4c^(f 


4 39 7 21 


22 29 


20 


RISES 


MORN 


2 10 


5 


7 


Bootis south 9 42—4 8 O 


4 38 7 22 


22 36 


v? 2 


9 9 


12 50 


3 2 


6 


C 


Trin. Sun.— 4 south 1 1 53. 


4 38 


7 22 


22 42 


14 


9 49 


141 


3 53 


7 


2 


(I apogee. 


4 37 


7 23 


22 48 


26 


1021 


2 30 


4 42 


8 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 7 39. 


4 37 


7 23 


22 53 




10 49 


3 16 


5 28 


9 


4 


^ sets 1 35. 


4 37 


7 23 


22 58 


1911 15 


4 1 


6 13 


10 


5 


5)'s lat. 2° N. 


4 36 


7 24 


23 3 


X 111 37 


4 43 


Q55 


11 


6 


? rises 2 50. 


4 36 


7 24 


23 7 


131159 


5 24 


7 36 


12 


7 


Jt^dd 


4 36 


7 24 


23 11 


26 MORN 


6 6 


818 


13 


C 


1st S. af, Trin.— J)'3a.24d. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 15 


T 812 21 


6 48 


9 


14 


2 


I? south ] 2 28. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 18 


21 


12 45 


7 33 


9 45 


15 


3 


Alioth on Mer..7 10—1^1 n 


4 35 


7 25 


23 20 


« 5 


1 13 


8 23 


10 35 


16 


4 


D runs high— ^ o' (L 


4 35 


7 25 


23 23 


19 


147 


917 


1129 


17 


5 


Day I4h. 50 m. long. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 24 


n 3 


2 28 


1017 


12 5 


18 


6 


Antaressouth 10 30. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 26 


18 


3 21 


1121 


1 9 


19 


7 


C perigee. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 


s 3 


SETS. 


AF.28 


2 16 


20 


C 


2d S. af. Trin.—? c^ (T 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 


18 


9 12 


132 


3 20 


21 


2 


O enters 35 S. com.— T? § Q 


4 35 


7 25 


23 28 


SI 3 


9 51 


2 33 


4 21 


22 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 6 42. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 


18 


10 23 


3 28 


5 16 


23 


4 


D's lat, 2° S. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 27 


-JL 3 


10 51 


4 19 


6 7 


24 


5 


4 south 10 33. 


4 35 


7 25 


23 26 


17 


11 15 


5 7 


Q55 


25 


6 


^ sets 12 34. 


4 35 7 25 


23 24 


^ 1 


1140 


5 54 


1^2 


26 


7 


])'sage7d. 


4 35 7 25 


23 22 


14 


MORN 


6 39 


8 27 


27 


C 


3d S. af. Trin.— ^ ^ (T 


4 35 7 25 


23 20 


27 


12 6 


7 25 


913 


28 


2 


^ runs low. 


4 35 7 25 


23 17 


nilO 


12 33 


813 


10 1 


29 


3 


Reg. sets 10 10— 'J's gr. clong. 


4 367 24 


23 14 


22 


1 4 


9 3 


10 51 


30 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 6 8. 


4 36 7 24 


23 11 


} 5 


141 


9 54 


1142 



A Vermont Loco-foco paper says that " an acre of democrats" lately assembled in convention 
at Montpeiier. Among the Resolutions adopted by this "orre of democrats," was one declaring 
that the effect of the sub-treasury would be to raise the wages of labour !!! What a wiss-acref 
— Prentice. 

Mr. Van Buren loves the people. — Globe, 

But the people don't return his passion. The poor man is " crossed in love" — Prentice. 

The issue of Treasury notes cannot be objected to from any o^her than factious motives. — Globe. 

Gen. Jackson himself, no longer ago than last June, wrote to the Editor of the Globe. — " / 
hope no Treasury/ notes will be issued.'" Why does not the Globe turn and curse the "factious" 
tenant of the Hermitage ! — Prentice. 

10 



1841.] 



SEVENTH MONTH— JULY. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


Full Moon 3d. 1 h. 


41 in. Afternoon Rainy. 


C Last Quarter 11 10 


33 Morninfr Frequent showers. 


Q New Moon 18 9 


24 Morning Changeable. 


J) First Quarter 25 8 


1 1 Morning Changeable. 


s -^ 




Sun Sun 


O's 


D's 


Moon 


Moon 1 


H. W. 


REMARKS. 


rises, sets. 


decN. 


place. 


sets. 


south. 


Philada. 


Q IQ 




H. M. H. M. 


o 




H. M. 


H. M. 


H. M. 


~T 


5 


O in apogee— i; ^^ (? 


4 36 7 24 23 7 


17 


0^^ 


10 46 12 6 


2 


6 


^ dd— 3 'sage 13 (3. 


4 36 7 24|23 2 


29 


3 14 


113612 58 


3 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 5 56. 


4 3717 23 22 58 


1^11 


RISES 


MORN 


148 


4 


C 


Ind.— 4lh S. af. Trin.— (Jape. 


4 37 7 2322 53 


23 


8 24 


12 26 


2 38 


5 


2 


? rises 2 2. 


4 37:7 2322 47 




8 53 


1 14 


3 26 


6 


3 


Lyra south 1 1 27. 


4 387 22 22 41 


16 


919 


158 


4 10 


7 


4 


^ sets 1 1 56. 


4 38 7 22 22 35 


28 


9 42 


2 41 


4 53 


8 


5 


Regulus sets 9 33. 


4 39 7 21 


22 28 


xlO 


10 2 


3 22 


5 34 


9 


6 


5)'8 lat. 4° N.— tji (^ d 


4 39j7 21 


22 21 


22 


10 25 


4 2 


6 14 


10 


7 


Antares south 8 58. 


4 40|7 20 


22 14 


V 5 


10 48 


4 44 


6b6 


11 


C 


5th S. af. Trin.— ])'s a. 22 J. 


4 40 7 20 


22 6 


17 


11 12 


5 28 


7 40 


12 


2 


4 south 9 15. 


4 417 192158 


« 


1141 


6 13 


8 25 


13 


3 


5 runs high. 


4 42 


7 182149 


14 


MORN 


7 3 


9 15 


14 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 5 11. 


4 42 


7 1821 40 


28 


12 19 


7 59 


1011 


15 


5 


Day 14 h. 34 m.— ? d d 


4 43 7 17 


21 30 


nl2 


1 5 


9 Oil 12 


16 


6 


f? south 10 12. 


4 43 


7 17 


2121 


27 


2 2 


10 5 


12 17 


17 


7 


B.'s eye rises 1 44. 


4 44 


7 16|21 11 


sl2 


3 13 


11 10 


12 58 


18 


C 


6th S. af. Trin.— ([ perigee. 


4 45 


7 1521 


27 


SETS. 


AF.13 


2 1 


19 


2 


y c! ([ [0 eel. invis. 


4 46 


7 14 20 49 


S112 


8 20 


1 13 


3 1 


20 


3 


$ rises 1 45. 


4 46]7 14';20 38 


27 


8 50 


2 8 


3 56 


21 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 4 43. 


4 47 


7 1320 27 


1^x12 


917 


2 59 


4 47 


22 


5 


J)'s lat. 4° S. 


4 48 


7 12 20 15 


26 


9 42 


3 47 


5 35 


23 


6 


O enters % 


4 49 


7 1120 3 


::==10 


10 9 


4 35 


6 23 


24 


7 


^'s gr. elong. 


4 50 


7 10:i9 50 


24 


10 36 


b22 


7 10 


25 


C 


7th S. af. Trin. — J) runs low. 


4 50 


7 1019 37 


^ 7 


11 6 


6 10 


7 58 


26 


2 


Alioth on Mer. 4 24. U d ^ 


451 


7 9!l924 


19 


1141 


6 59 


8 47 


27 


3 


S's Inf. d O 


4 52 


7 819 11 


t 2 


MORN 


7 50 


9 38 


28 


4 


^dd 


4 53 


7 71857 


14 


12 21 


8 42 10 30 


29 


5 


])'sage 11 d.—T^xid 


4 54 


7 648 43 


26 


1 9 


9 3211 20 


30 


6 


Lyra south 9 51. 


4 55 


7 5 18 28 


V5 8 


2 2 


10 2312 11 


31 


7 


Day 14 h.8 m.— ^ D O 


4 56 


i7 41814 


20 


3 1 


ill 11 


,12 35 



Getieral Harrison's moral principle. — Many old settlers upon lands in and around Cincin- 
nati held possession of their lots by titles which proved to be unsound. Former possessors 
were re-assuming their claims, and this without bringing disgrace upon themselves. An indi- 
vidual who was living upon land of which it was found that Gen. Harrison and a relative of his 
were the les^al owners, went to the former asking him to name the terms of a compromise. 
" Sir," answered he, " where I have no moral title, I have no legal title ;" and soon after this, 
both he and his friend gave in their quit-claim deeds to the parties concerned. 

The Government by its various outrages upon public opinion, has already raised a storm of 
indignation that will sweep away every vestige of the party in power. — Alex. Gazelle. 

We very much doubt the ability of the government to raise a storm. It has been trying in 
vain " to raise the wind" for the last six months. — Prentice. 

11 



1841.] 



EIGHTH MONTH— AUGUST. 



[31 Days. 



O Full Moon 

(£ Last Quarter 9 

e New Moon 16 

j) First Quarter 23 

O Full Moon 31 



MOO 

2d. 5h 



N'S 
Om. 
42 
31 
25 
21 



PHASES. 

Morning 

Afternoon. . . . 
Afternoon .... 
Afternoon .... 
Afternoon .... 



.Rain. 

.Perhaps rain. 
.Changeable. 
.Perhaps rain. 
.Perhaps rain. 



^ ^ 




Sun 


Sun 


O's 


D's 


Moon 


Moon 1 H. W. 


REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets. 


dec. N. 


place. 


sets. 


south. Phiiada. 


Q Q 




H. M. 


H. M. 







H. M. 


n. M. ' H. M. 


1 


C 


8th S. af. Trin. — (i apogee. 


4 57 


7 3 


17 58 


^ 2 


4 2 1156, 123 


2 


2 


J) eclipsed, part vis. 


4 58 


7 2 


17 43 


13 


RISES MORN 


2 8 


3 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 3 52. 


4 59 


7 1 


17 27 


25 


7 45 12 40 


2 52 


4 


4 


^ rises 1 41. 


5 


7 


17 12 


X 7 


8 8 


121 


3 33 


5 


5 


7 -X-'s rise 1 1 7. 


5 1 


6 59 


16 55 


19 


8 31 


2 2 


4 14 


6 


6 


'i^ 6 (5—'^ sta. 4 sta. 


5 2 


6 58 


16 39 


T 1 


8 52 


2 44 


4 56 


7 


7 


D's lat. 5° N. 


5 3 


6 57 


16 22 


14 


916 


3 25 


5 37 


8 


C 


OthS.af. Trin.— 3'sa. 21 d. 


5 4 


6 56 


16 5 


27 


9 44 


4 10 


6 22 


9 


2 


J) runs high. 


5 5 


6 55 


15 48 


«10 


1017 


4 58 


7 10 


10 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 3 25. 


5 6 


6 54 


15 30 


23 


10 56 


5 50 


8 2 


11 


4 


^ sets 10 23. 


5 7 


6 53 


15 13 


n 7 


1147 


6 46 


8 58 


12 


5 


Lyra south 9 2. 


5 8 


6 52 


14 55 


21 


MORN 


7 47 


9 59 


13 


6 


Day 13h. 42 m.— ?cj(j 


5 9 


6 51 


14 36 


95 5 


12 49 


8 5011 2 


14 


7 


^ south 8 1 3. [s^'s gr. elong. 


511 


6 49 


14 18 


20 


2 3 


9 5412 6 


15 


C 


1 0th S. af. Trin.— 2 peri.— 5 d Q 


5 12 


6 48 


13 59 


SI 5 


3 22 


10 55:12 43 


16 


2 


O eclipsed invis. 


513 


6 47 


13 40 


20 


4 42 


11 51 


1 39 


17 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 2 59. 


5 14 


6 46 


1321 


Ti;: 5 


SETS. 


AF.45 


2 33 


18 


4 


J)'s lat. 3° S. 


5 15 


6 45 


13 2 


20 


7 41 


135 


3 23 


19 


5 


Lyra south 8 35. 


5 17 


6 43 


12 42 


^ 5 


8 9 


2 25 


4 13 


20 


6 


4 sets 1 1 22. 


5 18 


6 42 


12 22 


19 


8 36 


3 13 


5 1 


21 


7 


7-)f'srise 10 7. 


5 19j6 41 


12 3 


ni 2 


9 5 


4 2 


5 50 


22 


C 


1 1th S. af. Trin. — ]) runs low. 


5 20 


6 40 


1142 


15 


9 40 


4 53 


6 41 


23 


2 


enters rr^—$ ^ ([ 


521 


6 39 


1122 


28 


1018 


5 44 


7 32 


24 


3 


Antares sets 10 29. — 4 ^ (J 


5 22 


6 38 


11 2 


tU 


11 4 


6 36 


8 24 


25 


4 


Day 13 h. 12 m.— ^ ^^ g 


5 24 


6 36 


10 41 


23 


1156 


7 28' 9 16 


26 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 2 26. — ? sta. 


5 25 


6 35 


1020 


>? 5 


MORN 


8 1810 6 


21 


6 


3) 's age 1 1 d. 


5 26 


6 34 


9 59 


17 


12 43 


9 810 56 


28 


7 


J) apogee. [beheaded. 


5 27 


6 33 


9 38 


28 


154 


9 5411 42 


29 


C 12th S. af. Trin— St.John IBap. 


5 28 


6 32 


9 16 


^10 


2 55 


10 3812 6 


30 


2 1 Day decreased 1 h. 50 m. 


5 30|6 30 


8 55 


22 


3 56 


11 21 12 50 


31 


3 jSirius rises 2 56. — ^ sta. 


531 


6 29 


8 33 


X 4 


RISES 


MORN 1 33 



Harrhon'x li ir I k-P /a ce.—Harnson's birth-place in Virginia has gone forhim Uxanimouslt, 
as appears by the following result. 

James Cifi/, Yar/,; and Willinms/iur^;.— James City county, is the birth place of Gen. Har- 
rison an(l John Tyler— it gave the Whigs a unanimous vote— and in the delegate district, there 
are but six Locos. 

Whilf in Kindcrbook, Mr. Van Buren's birth-place, he was beaten largely at the last elec- 
tion. Is this a si'srn .i" 

The hand writing is on the wall. / 



The ship of state will soon be afloat. — Globe. 
Upon a " sea of trouble." — Prentice. 



12 



1841.] 



NINTH MONTH— SEPTEMBER. 



[30 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


^ Last Quarter 7 d. 5 h. 


45 in. Morning Rain. 


O New Moon 15 12 
J) First Quarter 22 11 


52 Morni 
18 Morni 


ncr t 


air. 

requent showers. 


4 t' 


O Full Moon 30 11 


11 Morning Frequent showers. 


S 


!^ 


REMARKS. 


Sun 1 Sun Q's , J's 
rises, sets. dec. N. place. 


Moon 
rises. 


Moon 1 H.W. 
south. Philada. 


Q 


Q 

4 




H. M. 'h. M. o ' ' 


M. H. ' 


H. M. H. M. 


1 


Alioth on Mer. 2 4. 


5 32 6 28 8 12, 16 


6 3612 2, 2 14 


2 


5 


? rises 2 4— )J< ^^ ^ 


5 33 6 27 7 50 29 


6 58 12 43i 2 55 


3 


6 


7 ^-'s rise 9 24—4 Q O 


5 35 6 25 7 28,t11 


122] 


125 


3 37 


4 


7 


])'slat. 5°. N. 


5 36 6 24 7 6' 24 


7 48! 


2 9 


4 21 


5 


C 


13th S. af. Trin.— 5) runs h. 


5 37J6 23 


6 43« 7 


8 18 


2 55 


5 7 


6 


2 


Sirius rises 2 3G. 


5 39621 


6 21 20 


8 56 


3 45 


5 57 


7 


3 


Alioth on Mer. I 43. 


5 40|6 20 


5 59n 3 


9 40 


4 39 


6 51 


8 


4 


A returns sets 10 11. 


5 41 


6 19 


5 36 17 


10 38 


5 37 


7 49 


9 


5 


^ in sup. ^ Q 


5 42 


618 


51325 1 


1144 


6 39 


8 51 


10 


6 


^ sets 9 21. 


5 44 


6 16 


4 50 15 


:\IORN 


7 39 


9 51 


11 


7 


]) 's at^c 26 (1. 


5 45 6 15! 


4 28 SI 


12 59 


8 39 


10 51 


12 


C 


14thS. aft.Trin.— ?cj(5 


5 46 


6 14 


4 5 14 


2 16 


9 36 


1148 


13 


2 


([_ perigee. 


5 48 


6 12 


3 42 


29 


3 34 


1031 


12 43 


14 


3 


Holy-cross — 5)'s ^S® 29 d. 


5 49 


611 


3 19 


Ti;jl4 


4 51 


1122 


1 10 


15 


4 


Ember day— )J< § Q— ? d C 


5 50 


6 10 


2 55 


28 


SETS. 


AF.12 


2 


16 


5 


B.'s eye rises 9 51. 


5 51 


6'9 


2 32 


^13 


6 34 


1 1 


2 49 


17 


6 


Alioth on Mer. 1 7. 


5 53 


6 7 


2 9 


27 


7 3 


151 


3 39 


18 




j) runs low. 


5 54 


6 6 


146 


n,10 


7 36 


2 42 


4 30 


19 


c 


15th S. af. Trin.— I? D 


5 55 


6 5 


1 22 


24 


8 14 


3 34 


5 22 


20 


2 


Dayl2h. 5 m.— <:: d (i 


5 51 


6 3 


59 


/ 6 


8 59 


4 27 


6 15 


21 


3 


St. Mathew— 4 ,j (J— ^ cJ d 


5 58 


6 2 


36 


19 


9 48 


5 20 


7 8 


22 


4 


Q enters lii: — Autumn com. 


5 59 


6 1 


N.12 


VJ 1 


10 43 


611 


7 59 


23 


5 


4 sets 9 18. 


6 1 


5 59 


s. 11 


13 


11 44 


7 2 


8 50 


24 


6 


([_ apogee. 


6 2 


5 58 


34 


25 


MORN 


7 49 


9 37 


25 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 12 38. 


6 3 


5 57 


58 


-VIV i 


12 45 


8 34 10 22 


26 


C 


10th S. af. Trin.— J)'s a. 1 1 d. 


6 5 


5 55 


121 


IS 


146 


91711 5 


27 


2 


^ sets 10 00—^(^4 


6 6 


5 54 


145 


X C 


2 47 


9 59 1147 


28 


3 


7 ^'s rise 7 50. 


6 7 5 53 


2 8 


1^ 


3 49 


10 41 


12 11 


2^ 


4 


])'slat.4° N.— }+lc^(J 


6 8'5 52 


2 31 


2L 


» 4 51 


11 22 12 53 


3C 


1 5 


St. Jerome — ? rises 2 53. 


6 10 5 50 


2 55 


T ^ 


) RISES 


MORP* 


\ 134 



The Globe says, " the Government is opposed to imprisonment for debt." No doubt of that, 
for if imprisonment for debt were in force, the Government itself would have been peeping 
throu<;h the bars of a jail long^ aijo. — Prentice. 

Three years acjo the Globe alluded to a certain local victory of the Whigs as " a solitary me- 
teor in the Whig sky." We beg the editor to tell us what he thinks of the late 'meteoric 
shower ' — Ihid. 

The editor of the Richmond Inquirer says that he " will sink or swim with Van Buren." 
We think the old fellow will find himself like the hog— the divinity that he worships. If he 
sink, lie will he strangled to death outright; and if he swim, he will cut his own throat witJ» 
every stroke of his paw. — Ibid. 

B 3 



1S41.] 



TENTH MONTH— OCTOBER. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


a Last Quarter 7 d. 2 h. 


37 m. Afternoon Rain. 


% New Moon 14 11 


19 Morn 
33 After 


ing \ 


Vind — showers, 
air — changeable. 


5 First Quarter 22 4 


noon F 


O Full Moon 30 1 


6 Morninir Fair — frost. 

° » 


§ 


i^ 




Sun Sun i 


O's 1 D's 


Moon Moon H.W. 


P-« 


REMARKS. 


rises, sets. 


dec. S. 1 place. 


rises. south. Philada. 


Q 


6 




H. M. H. M. 


' 1 


H. M. H. M. H. M. 


1 


:D'slat.5''N. 


6 115 49, 3 18, 20| 


5 5112 6 2 18 


2 


7 


7 -X-'s rise 7 36. 


6 12 5 48 


3 41 


« 3 


6 2\\2 52 3 4 


3 


C 


17th S. af. Trin.— 5) runs h. 


6 14 5 46 


4 5 


17 


6 58 1 42 


3 54 


4 


2 


Alioth on Mer. 12 6. 


6 15 5 45 


4 28n 


7 40 2 36 


4 48 


5 


3 


^ seU 8 46. 


6 16 5 44 


4 51 14 


8 33 


3 32 


5 44 


6 


4 


? rises 3 5. 


618 


5 42 


5 14 28 


9 36 


4 32 


6 44 


7 


5 


3's age 22 d. 


6 19 


5 41 


5 37^12 


10 47 


5 32 


7 44 


8 


6 


4 sets 8 27. 


6 20 


5 40 


6 


26MORN 


6 32 


8 44 


9 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 11 47. 


Q22 


5 38 


6 23 


S11012 


7 26 


9 38 


10 


C 


18th S. af. Trin.— d perigee. 


6 23 


5 37 


6 46 


24 


1 15 


821 


10 33 


11 


2 


B.'s eye rises 8 21. 


6 24 


5 36 


7 8 


m 8 


2 30 


911 


1123 


\2 


3 


Day 11 h. 10 m.— ?c^ (J 


6 25 


5 35 


7 31 


23 


3 44 


10 1 


12 13 


13 


4 


]) 's lat. 4°. S. 


6 27 


5 33 


7 54 


- 7 


4 55 


10 5012 38 


14 


5 


Arcturus sets 8 1. 


6 28 


5 32 


816 


21 


6 7 


11 39 


127 


15 


6 


J) runs low. 


6 29 


531 


8 38 


TTL 5 


SETS. 


AF.30 


2 18 


16 


7 


Alioth on Mer. 1 1 21— y ^ (J 


6 31 


5 29 


9 1 


18 


5 9 


122 


310 


17 


C 


19thS. af. Trin.— Jcj P, 


6 32 


5 28 


9 23 


t 2 


6 51 


2 15 


4 3 


18 


2 


46(L 


6 33 


5 27 


9 45 


14 


7 40 


3 9 


4 57 


19 


3 


i6(i-b6') 


6 34 


5 26 


10 6 


27 


8 34 


4 3 


5 51 


20 


4 


7 -Jf' s south 1 59. 


6 36 


5 24 


10 28 


Vf 9 


9 32 


4 53 


6 41 


%\ 


5 


^ sets 8 32. 


6 37 


5 23 


10 49 


21 


10 33 


5 42 


7 30 


22 


6 


C apogee. 


6 38 


5 22 


11 10 


^ 3|1134 


6 28 


816 


23 


7 


Q enters n\^ 


6 39 


521 


1132 


15 MORN 


7 12 


9 


2\ 


G 


20th S af. Trin.— J)'s a. 10 d. 


6 


41 


5 19 


1153 


26 12 35 


7 54 


9 42 


25 


2 


>j's gr. elong. 


6 


42 


5 18 


12 13 


X 8 


135 


8 35 


10 23 


26 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 10 45— I^ J (J 


6 43 


517 


12 34 


21 


2 36 


917 


11 5 


21 


4 


3 'slat. 4" N. 


6 44 


5 16 


12 54 


T 3 


3 39 


9 59 


11 47 


28 


5 


4 sets 7 22. 


6 45 


5 15 


13 14 


16 


4 42 


10 45 


12 11 


29 


6 


j) runs high. 


6 47 


5 13 


13 34 


29 


5 51 


11 35 


12 57 


30 


7 


? rises 3 56. 


6 48 


5 12 


13 54 


«13 


RISES 


MORN 


147 


31 


C 


21st S. af. Trin.— J)'8a. 17 d. 


6 49 


511 


14 14 


26 


5 37 


12 28 


2 40 



R!chard M. Johnson's opinion nf Harrison. — " Who is Gen. Harrison] The son of one of 
ihc signers of the Declaration of Independence, who spent the greater part of his large fortune 
in redeeming the jiledgc he then gave 'of his fortune, life, and sacred honour,' to secure tho 
liberties of his country. 

"Of the career of (ien. Harrison I need not speak — the history of the West is his history. 
For forty years he has been identified with ils interests, its perils, and its hopes. Universally 
beloved in the walks of peace, and distinguished by his ability in the councils of his country, 
he has been yet more illustriously distinguished in the field. 

"During the I;ile war he was longer in active service thnn any other general officer; he was 
perhaps oftener in action than any of them, and never sustained a defeat." — R. M. Johnson. 

14 



.841.] 



ELEVENTH MONTH— NOVEMBER. [30 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


C Last Quarter 5 d. 1 1 h. 


58 in. Afternoon. .Perhaps rain, or snow. 


O New Moon 13 12 


40 Morninsr. . . Fair — frosty. 


J) First Quarter 20 11 


4 Afternoon. .Perhaps rain, or snow. 


^ Full Moon 28 2 


Afternoon . . Rain, or snow. 


•s ^ 1 




Sun 


Sun , O's 


3)'8 


Moon 


Moon 1 


H. W. 


S 


?- 


REMARKS. 


rises. 


sets, j dec. S. 


place. 


rises. 


south. 


Philada. 


Q 1 


2 


AllSaints— ])'slat.4°N. 


H. M. 


«. M. ° ' 




H. M. 


H. M. 


H. M. 


1 


6 50 


5 1014 33 


nlO[ 


6 29, 125, 


3 37 


2 


3 


J rises 4 2. 


6 51 


5 914 52 


24i 


7 29 2 26 


4 38 


3 


4 


Aliothon Mer, 10 13. 


6 53 


5 71511 


s 8 


8 38 3 26' 


5 38 


4 


5 


^ perigee. 


6 54 


5 615 29 


22 


9 51 


4 27 


6 39 


5 


6 


Day 10 h. 10 m.— y sU. 


Q5o 


5 5 15 48 


SI 7 


11 5 


5 23 


7 35 


6 


7 


B.'s eye south 1 42. 


Q5Q 


5 4 16 6 


21 


MORN 


617 


8 29 


71 


C 


22(1 S. af. Trin.— ^'s a. 24 d. 


6 57 


5 316 24 


n 5 


12 19 


7 7j 


9 19 


8 


2 


Sirius rises 10 38. 


6 58 


5 2 16 41 


19 


130 


7 56 


10 8 


9 


3 


Alioth on Mer. 9 49. 


6 59 


5 1 


16 58 


^ 3 


2 41 


8 431055 


10 


4 


(p sets 7 20. 


7 


5 


17 15 


16 


3 51 


9 311143 


11 


5 


3) runs low — ? d (J 


7 1 


4 59 


17 32 


ni 


5 1 


10 2012 8 


12 


6 


Bootis rises 3 42. 


7 2 


4 58 


17 48 


14 


6 11 11 1112 59 


13 


7 


/| sou 6 32—!? (j (J 


7 4 


4 56 


18 4 


27 


sets.'af. 4 


152 


14 


C 


23d S. af. Trin.— J)'s lat. 4° S. 


7 5 


4 55 


18 20 


/lO 


5 30 12 58 


2 46 


15 


2 


il6 C 


7 6 


4 54 


18 35 


22 


6 23 151 


3 39 


16 


3 


i in Inf. d O—h 6 i 


7 7 


4 53 


18 50 


vj 5 


7 21 2 45 


4 33 


17 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 91 6— J (iC 


7 7 


4 53 


19 5 


17 


8 20 3 34 


5 22 


18 


5 


Fomal. south 7 12, 


7 8 


4 52 


19 19 


29 


9 22 4 21 


6 9 


19 


6 


(^ apogee. 


7 9 


451 


19 33 


^11 


10 231 5 6 


6 54 


20 


7 


7 -Jf' s south 1 1 52. 


7 10 


4 50 


19 47 


22 


11231 5 48 


; 7 36 


21 


C 


24th S. af. Trin.— J)'s a. 8 d. 


7 11 


4 49 


20 1 


X 4 


MORN 


6 28 


! 8 16 


22 


2 


O enters / 


7 12 


4 48 20 13 


16 


12 22 


7 10 


8 58 


23 


3 


Day 9 h. 34 m.— IJt i (5 


713 


4 47 20 26 


28 


122 


7 51 


9 39 


24 


4 


^ sets 8 22. 


7 14 


4 46 20 38 


Til 


2 25| 8 36 10 24 


25 


5 


^ runs high — ^ sta. 


7 15 


4 45 20 50 


24 


331 92211 10 


26 


6 


])'siat. 5° N. 


7 15 


4 45 21 2 


« 7 


4 3810 15 12 3 


27 


7 


Sirius rises 9 22. 


7 16 


4 4421 13 


21 


54911 101257 


28 


C 


Advent S. — l)'s "Se 15 d. 


717 


4 43 21 23 


n 5 


RISES MORN 


122 


22 


2 




717 


4 43 21 33 


19 


51512 11 


2 23 

1 


30 


3 


St. Andrew — l^ sta. 


7 18 


4 42 2143 


25 A 


Q22 \U 


^ 3 26 



Tliough the election has g(ine against us, we have not met with a Van Buren man yet, who 
dcsp.iirsi rif the republic. — Richmond Enquirer. 

Proliahly not. The Van Burenites have too much sense to despair of the rcpuhlic merely 
because they see the Government passing into the hands of the Whigs. They despair of the 
TO0(7>, but not of the republic. — Louisville Jour. 

A Tory eilitor in Mississippi threatens to 'put a full stop over each of the eyes of the editor 
of the Journal.' I.et him try it. Whilst he is putting his full stops over our eyes, we will put 
his nose in a parenthesis. — lb d. 

The Whigs have in a manner stolen our thunder. — D n/fnn (0.) HrriiM. 

We can assure that chap that the Whigs have not medclled with his ' ihuniler,' but they will 
soon show him and his party, that they have stolen a few earthquakes. — Prenlice, 

15 



1841.] 



TWELFTH MONTH— DECEMBER. 



[31 Days. 



MOON'S PHASES. 


a Last Quarter 5d. lOh. 
9 New Moon 12 4 
]) First Quarter 20 5 
O Full Moon 28 1 


20 m. Morn 
53 After 
49 After 
53 Morn 


[r\cr C 


old high wind. 

air. 

air. 

air and frosty. 


"'B ^ 

noon I 

noon F 

ing F 




a 


REMARKS. 


Sun 
rises. 

H. M. 


Sun O's 
sets. dec. S. 

H. M. ' 


place. 


Moon 
rises. 

H. M. 


Moon H. W. 
south. Philada. 

H. M. H. M. 


1 


4 


C perigee. 


7 19 


4 4121 53 


18! 7 37 


2 16 


4 28 


2 


5 


Aiiothon Mer. 8 13. 


7 19 


4 4122 2 


SI 3 8 56 


3 17| 


5 29 


3 


6 


^■'s gr. elong. 


7 20 


4 402210 


1710 10 


4 13 


6 25 


4 


7 


Pegasia south 6 12. 


7 20 


4 40 22 18 


r^)l 2 11 23 


5 4' 


7 16 


5 


C 


2d Sun. iH Adv. — ^ sets 8 22. 


721 


4 39 22 26 


1 6 MORN 


5 54 


8 6 


6 


2 


B.'seye south 11 32. 


721 


4 39 22 33 


2912 33 


6 41 


8 53 


7 


3 


? rises 5 26. 


7 22 


4 3822 40 


=^13 


142 


7 28 


9 40 


& 


4 


5 runs low — $ sta. 


7 23 


i SI 22 4.1 


27 


2 50 


8161028 


9 


5 


Alioth on Mer. 7 42. 


7 23 


4 37 22 52 


nilO 


3 58 


9 411 16 


10 


6 


^ sets 5 36. 


7 23 


4 37 


22 58 


23 


5 6 


9 5612 8 


11 


7 


^6<l—?6(L 


7 24 


4 36 


23 3 


/ 6 


611 


10 4912 37 


12 


C 


3d S. in Advent—?^ D O 


7 24 


4 36 23 7 


18 


711 


1143 


131 


13 


2 


D'slat.2°S.— 4c^C:— JpcSC 


7 24 


4 36 23 12 


VJ 1 


SETS. 


AF.36 


2 24 


U 


3 


7 ^'s south 10 9. 


7 25 


4 35 23 15 


13 


6 9 


127 


3 15 


15 


4 


Ember day — J) in node. 


7 25 


4 35 23 18 


25 


711 


2 16 


4 4 


16 


5 


Aiiothon Mer. 7 11. 


7 25 


4 35 23 21 


MA/ Y 


811 


3 


4 48 


17 


6 


a apogee— J c^ (J 


7 25 


4 35 23 23 


^19 


9 12 


3 44 


5 32 


18 


7 


B.'s eye south 10 39. 


7 25 


4 35 23 25 


X 01010 


4 24 


6 12 


19 


C 


4th Sun. in Advent. 


7 25 


4 3523 26 


12 11 10 


5 4 


6 52 


20 


2 


Day 9 h. 10 m.— }^ J (J 


7 25 


iS5 2S21 


24MORN 


5 45 


7 33 


21 


3 


O enters VJ — Wint. com. 


7 25 


4 35 23 28 


T 6 


12 10 


6 27 


815 


22 


4 


Alioth on Mer. 6 45— Z^ ^ Q 


7 25 


4 35 23 27 


19 


1 12 


7 12 


9 


23 


5 


1) runs high. 


7 25 


4 35 23 27 


8 2 


2 18 


I 8 


9 48 


24 


6 


7 -)f' s south 9 24. 


7 25 


4 35 23 26 


15 


3 26 


8 5310 41 


25 


7 


Christmas— J) 's lat. 4° N. 


7 25 


4 3523 24 


29 


4 37 


' 951 11 39 


26 


C 


1st. S. af. Christmas. 


7 25 


4 35 23 22 


nl3 


5 47 10 5312 3 


27 


2 


St. John— I? ci O 


7 25 


4 35 23 20 


27 


6511158 


1 1 ^ 


28 


3 


Innocents — ? rises 6 13. 


7 25 


4 35 23 17 


sl2 


RISES MORN 


2 10 


29 


4 


([ perigee — ]) 's age 1 7 d. 


7 24 


4 36 23 13 


27 


6 34 


, 1 3 12 


30 


5 


O in perigee. 


7 24 


4 36 23 9 


Sll2 


7 53 


2 l! 4 13 


31 


6 


Silvester. 


7 24 


4 36 23 5 


27 


9 8 


; 2 57, 5 9 



Cease your base slanders, ye vipers ! you gnaw against a file — remember that every ounce 
of abuse lavished upon the patriot soldier, produces a pmmd, avoirdupois weight, of friends. 

Skllino White Mkn, — Gen. Harrison has been frequently charged with voting for an act 
to sell white men for debt. In a letter to the editor of the Richmond Whig, he denies the foul 
imputation, as follows : — 

"Siicii AN ACT wouLi. HAVE BEF.N REPUGNANT TO MY FEELINGS and in DI- 
RECT CONFLICT WITH MY OPINIONS, pithi.ic and privatk. TimoroH thk wholb 
cornsF. OF nt liff.. NO SUCH PROPOSITION WAS EVER SUBMITTED TO 
THE LECiISLATURE OF OHIO — nonf. such would foh a hiomkxt uavk hkkn enteh- 

TAINEI) NOR WOULD ANT SON OF HEllS UAVK DAHKD TO I'llOPOSE IT." 

Ifi 



THE LIFE 



OF 



GEN. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. 

From the Sth No. of Huddy Sf DuvaVs U. S. Military Magazine. 



The genius of American institutions, opposed as it is to that restless spirit 
of conquest which actuated and convulsed so many nations of antiquity, the 
middle ages, and even a later day, would seem to be unfriendly to the develope- 
ment of military talents. Neither the requirements of a superabundant popu- 
lation, nor any of the usual incentives to an increase of territory, always flagrant 
in aged and despotic countries, have yet arisen to counteract the anti-military 
tendencies of our form of government and social polity. Our wars, conse- 
quently, have been few in number and always of a defensive character ; but 
what they have been deficient in extent and frequency, they have unfortu- 
nately made up in severity and duration. If our armies of volunteers and 
militia could not be compared in point of numbers and discipline, to the well- 
appointed hosts of imperial France or haughty England, they have proved that 
their valor was as unyielding as those of the bravest regulars with whom they 
have come in conflict. If, until a comparatively recent period, our oflicers 
have been devoid of that rigid schooling, the benefits of which are partially en- 
joyed by even the humblest subjects of some European nations, the laurels 
they have won on many a hard-fought field against the mercenary legions of 
Britain and the savage hordes on our frontier, attest the prowess and military 
capacity of our people. The historians of few countries, numbering even cen- 
turies of existence, can point their readers to a list of such illustrious instances 
of consummate heroism as are furnished in the annals of the arms of our infant 
republic. The narratives of valor may be hunted in vain for examples of truer 
elevation of soul, or more daundess gallantry under tlie most appalling emer- 
gencies. The glory of their acluevements is the property of the nation. The 
sun of their fame, unobscured by the mists of malice or envy, will irradiate the 
path of the future defenders of our country. Tlieir bright example is the rich- 
est heritage we can bequeath to posterity. We need then offer no apology to 
the readers of this magazine, for devoting a few pages to a succinct and impar- 
tial elucidation of the military career of one of our most valiant and, we may 
add, successful generals. 

William Henry Harrison was born in Virginia, in the year 1773, and was 
the third son of Benjamin Harrison, one of the most distinguished patriots of 
the Revolution, a member of the Continental Congress, one of the signers of 
the Declaration of Independence, and subsequently governor of Virginia. This 
venerated sage and statesman died in 1791, when his son William was about 
eighteen years of age. Hence the early period of the life of General Harrison, 
when impressions are the deepest and most indelible, was passed in the school 
of patriotism and with the brightest models before him. Soon after the death 
of his father, and the completion of his education within the venerable walls of 
b2 3 17 



18 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

Hampden Sydney College, he was induced, by the advice of his friends, to re- 
move to Philadelphia, and devote himself to the study of medicine, under the 
guardiansliip of Robert Morris, the celebrated financier of the Revolution. 
About that period, however, a general excitement and alarm prevailed along the 
whole frontier bordering on the Ohio River, produced by the depredations and 
murders committed by the Indians. Young Harrison, true to the stock from 
which lie sprang, participating in the patriotic feelings of the times, resolved, 
with the consent of his friends, among whom was the immortal Washington, an 
intimate associate of his father, to enter the service of his country. Some idea 
may be formed of the posture of affairs at that period, and of the character of 
the duties he was required to discharge, when it is recollected that it was on tlie 
4th of November, in the year 1791, that General St. Clair, with an army of 
fourteen hundred men, was defeated at the Miami villages, by the confederated 
Indians under the celebrated chief Little Turtle, with the loss of nearly one 
thousand men in killed and wounded, including some of his best officers. In 
November, 1791, when but eighteen years of age, he received his first appoint- 
ment as ensign from General Washington, and hastened to join his regiment, 
which was then stationed at Fort Washington. He arrived at that post a few 
days after the disastrous defeat of St. Clair to which we have just adverted. A 
new army was soon after raised by the government, and the command given to 
General Wayne, who had earned a brilliant reputation for skill and gallantry 
durinc the Revolutionary War. This army, which was called Wayne's Legion, 
was organised at Pittsburgh in the summer of 1792; and in the ensuing No- 
vember it left tiiat place and went into winter quarters at Legionville, on the 
Ohio, twenty-two miles below Pittsburgh. In February, 1792, Harrison was 
promoted by General Washington to a lieutenancy, and soon after he joined 
Wayne's Legion. His boldness, energy, and strict attention to discipline, very 
early attracted the notice of his observant commander-in-chief, himself a chival- 
rous and fearless soldier and rigid disciplinarian — and General Wayne not long 
after selected him as one of his aides-de-camp. 

These minute details are worthy of especial regard, as illustrative of the high 
estimate entertained of Harrison at a very early age and in trying times, by 
the most discerning soldiers and patriots of the country. During the whole of 
the ensuing campaigns — which were not less distinguished for the arduous ser- 
vices which they entailed, than for their results, which conferred so much glory 
on our arms and gave peace and tranquillity to the frontier. Lieutenant Harri- 
son acted as aid to General Wayne. His bravery and gallant conduct through- 
out, were sucli, that he was repeatedly officially noticed in terms of the highest 
encomium. In his despatches to the Secretary of War, after the bloody and 
desperate battle of Miami, in which the confederated Indians and their allies 
were totally routed, General Wayne, in mentioning those whose fearlessness 
made them conspicuous on that occasion, remarked, 

" My faithful and gallant aides-de-camp, Captains De Butts and T. Lewis, and Lieu- 
tenant Harrison^ with tlie adjutant-general, Major Mills, rendered the most essential 
service by communicating my orders in every direction, and by their conduct and bra- 
very exciting the troops to press for victory." 

Soon after this battle, in July, 1797, Lieutenant Harrison received from the 
President, as some slight recompense fi)r his gallantry, the commission of cap- 
tain, and was placed in command of Fort Washington — the most important 
military post on the western frontier. He was then but twenty-four years of 
age ! 

Captain Harrison remained in the army till the close of the year 1707, 
when, as there was no longer an opportunity of servino- his country in the field, 
he resigned his commission. He was almost immediately after appointed by 
the president, secretary and, ex officio^ lieutenant-governor of the north-western 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 19 

territory, which then embraced the immense extent of country lying north-west 
of the Ohio river. In this post, whicli was of a civil nature alto<relher, he 
rendered himself so popular by his talents, urbanity, and propriety of deport- 
ment, that he was elected by the people of the territory their first delegate to 
Congress, when- but twenty-six years of age, and took his seat in the house of 
representatives at the commencement of the (irst session, in December, 1799. 
His first efforts were directed to the accomplishment of an object in which tlie 
vital interests of his constituents, particularly tlie poorer classes of tliem, were 
concerned. This was to procure a change in the mode of disposing of the 
public lands, which from the size of the tracts sold, and places of sale, put 
it out of tlie power of the indigent emigrants to purchase them; throwing, as 
a natural consequence, the whole business into the hands of speculators, and 
thus retarding the setdement of the country. By dint of his great talents, 
irrepressible energy, and perseverance, he accomplished the object, notwith- 
standing the opposition which the measure met with from the wealthy capitalists 
of the country and some of the ablest members of Congress. 

At this session of Congress the northwestern territory, which had hitherto 
embraced all the country lying on the northwest of the Ohio, includinij Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and what are now called the territories of Wis- 
consin and Iowa, was divided into two parts ; so much of it as comprised the 
present states of Ohio and Michigan, retained the old name, and the rest, com- 
prising the immense extent of country lying nortliwest of it, was made a 
separate territory and received the title of Indiana. The act of (congress, 
which was approved by the president on the 7lh of May, 1800, became a law 
on that day, and on the I2th of May, five days afterwards, (Captain Harrison 
was nominated by him to the senate as the first governor of Indiana territory, 
in compliance with the earnest and express wishes of the people of the territory. 
On the following day the nomination was confirmed by the senate.* 

If we reflect for a moment on the nature of the powers which were con- 
ferred by this appointment, and the delicate situation in which he was placed, 
from his immediate connexion with the Indians, fickle, treacherous, and prone 
to war as they were ; it is difiicult to conceive a stronger proof of the estima- 
tion in which he was held, and the higli opinion entertained of his civil and 
military talents, by the president, the senate, and the people of the territory. 
By tills appointment, he became commander-in-chief of the militia, with the 
right of selecting all ofiicers in it below the rank of general-officers. Before 
the organization of the general assembly, he was to appoint such mairistrates 
and other civil functionaries, in each county and township as he should deem 
necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, and, together with the 
judges, to adopt and publish such laws of the original states, both criminal and 
civil, as they sliould think proper and suited to the circumstances of the district, 
possessing himself alone the power to lay out the counties and townships. 
After the organization of the general assembly, he was to form part of it, 
having an absolute veto U[)on all their proceedings, with the power to convene, 
prorogue or dissolve the assembly, when he thought it expedient. The term 
of office was limited by law to three years, and at the expiration of any one 
term, unless his conduct had been perfecUy satisfactory to the government, 
and to the people over whom he presided, he might have been suspended 
without the harshness of removal from office. Yet he administered the civil 
government of that immense territory, possessing almost absolute powers over 
its diversified concerns and interests, for the period of thirteen years, from 



* "I nominate William Hf^nry Harrison to be govrrnor of the Indiana territory, from 
the 13th day of May next, when his present comiiiission as governor will expire. 

Sig-ned, Thomas Jeffkkson." 

Executive .Tournal of the United States Senate, page 441. 



20 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON 

1800 to 1813, being reappointed twice by Mr. Jefferson, in 1803 and 1806, 
and once by Mr. Madison in 180i). lie is thus seen to have received the 
strongest marks of confidence and approbation, from all the different presidents, 
from the people of the territory, and from four senates of the United Slates. 

in the year 1809, the house of representatives of Indiana territory unani- 
mously requested his re-appointment in the following terms extracted from the 
resolution : — 

"Tliey cannot forbear recommending to and requesting of the president and senate, 
most earnestly, in tlieir own name, and in llie name of their constituents, the appoint- 
ment of their present governor, William Htnry Harrison^ because he possesses the 
good wishes and affection of a great majority of his fellow-citizens ; — because they 
believe him sincerely attached to the Union, the prosperity of the United States, and 
the administration (Mr. Madison's) of its government; — because they believe him, in 
a superior degree, capable of promoting the interests of the territory, from long 
experience and laborious attention to its concerns, from his influence with the Indians, 
and wise and disinterested management of that department, and because they have 
confidence in his virtues, talents, and republicanism." 

But in addition to these extensive powers, he was, in the year 1803, appointed 
by Mr. Jefferson, with the advice and consent of the senate, 

" Commissioner to enter into any treaties which may be necessary with any Indian 
tribes northwest of the Ohio, and within the territory of the United States, on the 
subject of their boundaries or lands."* 

Under the power thus given, during the period of his civil administration as 
governor, he alone negotiated thirteen treaties with different tribes, for extin- 
guishing their titles to lands within tliat extensive and fertile region. Nearly 
the entire period of his civil administration was a continued series of treaties; 
and his unsurpassed efficiency as a negotiator and diplomatist, is amply esta- 
blished in his able and voluminous correspondence with President Jefferson, 
and in the treaties themselves. By one of these he procured the extinguish- 
ment of the title to the largest tract of country ever ceded at one time by the 
Indians, since the settlement of North America. It einbraced upwards of 
fifty-one millions of acres! 

IJntil the year 1811, Governor Harrison had been able from his knowledge 
of the Indian character and skilful management of their ailairs, to keep his 
savage neighbours in check, and to preserve the peace and security of the 
frontier settlements. About this period, however, our aflairs with England 
drawing to a crisis, the British traders availed themselves of the natural turbu- 
lence and love of plunder which characterize the Indians, to instigate them to 
acts of violence and depredation, and actually furnished them with arms and 
equipments for war. To their influence was added that of the Shawnese 
prophet, 01-li-wa-chica, the brother of the celebrated Tecumseh ; and these 
deluded tribes began to renew those scenes of desolation and blood, in the 
conflagration of dwellings and the murder of whole families, which iiad before 
drawn down upon them the vengeance of tlie American people. In October, 
1811, Governor Harrison with the troops under his command, proceeded to the 
Prophet's town, on the Wabash, at the junction with the Tijipecanoe, for the 
purpose of restoring tranquillity. After a march of thirty days, he arrived 



* "I nominate William Henry Harrison, of Indiana, to be a commissioner, to enter 
■into ANV freafi/ or Irralirs which may bo necessary, witb any Indian tribes, northwest 
of the Oiiio, and within the territory of the United States, on the subject of the 
boundary, or lands. 

Signed, Thomas Ji:fferson." 

The message containinrr these nonunations was transmitted to the senate of the 
United .States, on the third day of February, 1803, read on the 4t!i, and on the 8th 
taken up for consideration, when the nomination of William Henry Harrison, above 
recited, received the unanimous sanction of that honourable body. 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 21 

there on the Gth of November, ana the Indians, as usual, met liim with pro- 
testations of friendship, and the promise to liokl a council on the following day 
for the settlement of all complaints. Before the followinji day, however, in the 
gloom of a dark, cold, and cloudy night, they assailed liis camp with savage 
yells. But they did not (as they expected) find him unprepared. The army 
had been encamped in the order of battle, and the troops reposed with their 
clothes and accoutrements on, and their arms at their sides. The officers had 
been ordered to sleep in the same manner, and 

" It was the governor's invariable practice to bo ready to mount his horse at a 
moment's warning. On the morning of the 7lh, he arose at a quarter before four 
o'clock, and sat by the fire conversing with the gentlemen of his family, who were 
reclining on their blankets waiting for the signal, which in a few minutes would have 
been given for the troops to turn out. The orderly drummer had been already roused 
for the reveillee. 'I'he moon had risen, but afforded little light, in consequence of 
being overshadowed by clouds, which occasionally discharged a drizzling rain. At 
this moment the attack commenced. A desperate conflict ensued, in which the 
Indians manifested uncommon ferocity, but which ended in their total defeat ; and they 
abandoned their town, leaving behind them their provisions and almost every thing 
they possessed."* 

The battle of Tippecanoe was one of the most spirited and best fought 
actions recorded in the annals of our Indian wars. 'I'he assailants and their 
weapons were fully equal in numbers and quality to the Americans, and the 
Indians, contrary to their usual custom, fought hand to hand, and with the 
fiercest bravery. No soldier in the ranks at this battle was exeiript from 
danger, but no man encountered more personal peril than Governor Harrison 
himself — well known to many of the Indians, and the object of their peculiar 
attack, — his fearless and unshrinking exposure, makes it appear almost a 
miracle that he should have escaped unwounded. In referring to the coolness 
and intrepidity of Governor Harrison on this occasion, we cannot refrain from 
making the following extracts from a journal published in 1816, by a private 
soldier, who fought in this battle, and could have had no interested motives for 
his publication. — " General Harrison," he says, " received a shot through the 
rim of his hat. In the heat of the action his voice was frequently heard, and 
easily distinguished, giving his orders, in the same calm, cool, and collected 
manner, with which we had been used to receive them on drill or parade. 
The confidence of the troops in the general was unlimited." The same 
intelligent writer in speaking of Harrison's kindness to the soldiers, and his 
influence over them, remarks : — " He appeared not disposed to detain any man 
against his inclination ; being endowed by nature with a heart as humane as 
brave, in his frequent addresses to the militia, his eloquence was formed to 
persuade ; appeals were made to reason as well as to feeling, and never were 
they made in vain." The president, Mr. Madison, in communicating to Con- 
gress, December 13, 1811, the despatches and intelligence of this splendid 
achievement of western valour, thus expressed himself: — 

" While it is deeply to be lamented, that so many valuable lives have been lost in 
the action which took place on the 7th ult.. Congress will sec with satisfaction the 
dauntless spirit and fortitude victoriously displayed by every description of troops 
engaged, as well as the collected firmness which distinguished their commander, on 
an occasion requiring the utmost exertion of valour and discipline." 

The legislature of Indiana issued an address to Governor Harrison, of which 
the following is an extract : — 

" The house of representatives of Indiana territory, in their own name, and in behalf 
of their constituents, most cordially reciprocate the contrratulations of your excellency 
on the glorious result of the late sanguinary conflict with the Shawnese prophet, and 

* See McAfee's History of the Last War, published in 1816, from which tliis de- 
scription is taken ; pp. 20 — 30. 



22 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

the tribes of Indians confederated with him ; where we see displayed in behalf of our 
country, not only the consummate abilities of the general, but the heroism of the 
man; and when we take into view the benefits whicli must result to that country 
from those exertions, we cannot for a moment withhold our meed of applause." 

Tlie chivalry and daring of General Harrison, not less than his great 
abilities and skill displayed as a commander on the occasion, were thns referred 
to in a joint resolution of the legislature of Kentucky, notwithstanding the loss 
that stale had sustained in some of her most valuable citizens : — 

" Resolved, that in the late campaign against the Indians on the Wabash, Governor 
TV. 11. Harrison has, in the opinion of this legislature, behaved like a Hero, a Patriot, 
and a General ,■ and that for his cool, deliberate, skilful and gallant conduct in the late 
battle of Tippecanoe, he deserves the warmest thanks of the nation." 

The gallant Colonel Daviess, who fell at Tippecanoe, thus speaks of Gene- 
ral Harrison in a letter written a short time before the battle : — 

" I make free to declare that I have imagined there were two military men in the 
West, and General Harrison is the first of the two." 

These are but a few of the many eulogies pronounced upon his achievements 
before and on the glorious field of Tippecanoe. 

On the 18th of June, 1812, war was declared by the United States against 
Great Britain, and Governor Harrison was in that year appointed a brigadier- 
general in the regular army. In the course of the year. General Hull, to whom 
had been confided the command of the northwestern arm)^, made a shameful 
surrender at Detroit, putting the British in possession of his whole force, and 
of a large region of country. This mortifying and disastrous event gave new 
zeal and hopes to the savage foe ; the intelligence was spread with rapidity, 
from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and the torch of war was lighted along 
the whole frontier of the United States. In the surprise, alarm, grief, and in- 
dignation of tlie iwomeni, public sentiment pointed to General Harripon as the 
man who alone was equal to the exigencies of the occasion, and accoidingly to 
him was confided, as commander-in-chief, the difficult and dangerous duty of 
repairing the mischiefs which had been inflicted upon the country by the base 
conduct of Hull. This appointment was conferred upon him by Mr. Madison, 
at the earnest request and recommendation of the people of the West, and par- 
ticularly of the gallant Governor Shelby and Colonel Richard M. Jolinson of 
Kentucky, who had served under him. Before this, however, a successful 
effort had been made by a jealous rival of General Harrison to have General 
Winchester appointed to this command. McAflee, in his history of the Last 
War, remarks, 

"The troops had confidently expected that General Harrison would be confirmed in 
the command ; and by this time he had completely received the confidence of every 
soldier in the army. He was aflfable and courteous in his manners, and indefatigable 
in his attention to every branch of business. His soldiers seemed to anticipate the 
wishes of their general ; it was only necessary to be known that he wished something 
done, and all were anxious to risk their lives in its accomplishment. His men would 
have fought better and suffered more with him, than with any other general in America; 
and whatever might have been the merits of General Winchester, it was certainly an 
unfortunate arrangement which transferred the command to him at this moment. It is 
absolutely necessary that militia soldiers should have great confidence in their general, 
if they are required either to obey with promptness, or to fight with bravery. The 
men were at last reconciled to march under Winchester, but with a confident belief 
that Harrison would be placed in the command ; which accordingly was done, as soon 
as the War Department was informed of his appointment in the Kentucky troops, and 
his popularity in the western country."* 

* A caucus was called on the subject of the appointment. " At this caucus, com- 
posed of General Shelby, the Honourable Henry Clay, Speaker of the Hruse of Re- 
presentatives in Congress, the Honourable Thomas Todd, Judge of the Federal Court, 
&c. &c., it was unanimously resolved to give Harrison a brevet commission of Major- 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 23 

A letter was addressed to General Harrison by the immortal Perry, about the 
time of the appointment of the former to the command, from which we make 
the following extract. 

" You know what has been my opinion as to the future commander-in-chief of the 
army. I pride myself not a little, I assure you, on seeing my predictions so near being 
verilied ; yes, my dear friend, I expect soon to hail you as the chief who is to redeem 
the honour of our arms in the North." 

In a letter addressed to General Harrison by Colonel Richard M. Johnson, 
dated July 4th, 1813, assigning the reasons which influenced him and the 
brave Kentuckians under his command, to join the army of General Harrison, 
we find the following remarks : — 

" Two great objects induced us to come ; first, to be at the regaining of our own 
territory and Detroit, and at tbe taking of Maiden; and secondly, to serve under an 
otTicer in whom we have confidence. We would not have engaged in the service 
without such a prospect — we did not want to serve under drunkards, old grannies, 
cowards, nor traitors, but under one (General Harrison) who has proved himself to be 
wise, prudent, and brave." 

The first efforts of General Harrison were to assemble and organize a suita- 
ble army. In May, 1813, he sustained a siege for thirteen days, at Fort Meigs, 
conducted by a superior combined force of British troops and Indians under 
General Proctor and Tecumseh, from which they were repulsed with signal 
success. During the siege, 1800 shells and balls were fired upon the fort, as 
well as a continual discharge of small arms maintained. Colonel M'Kune of 
Ohio, a veteran of the last war, states, that, 

" In the first attack by the British upon Fort Meigs, the Americans fouglit outside 
the fort. I commanded at one of the gates of the fort, and personally helped General 
Harrison over the pickets, and saw him commanding his men in person and on foot, 
regardless of the most imminent danger." 

McAfTee minutely describes the brilliant sortie of Fort Meigs, in his History 
of the Last War, to which we are compelled by our narrow limits to refer the 
reader for many interesting particulars. 

In the fall of the year 1813, the glorious victory of Perry on Lake Erie 
having given to the Americans the command of the lake, General Harrison de- 
termined to invade Canada, and carry the war into the enemy's country. His 
troops were accordingly transported to tHe Canadian shore by the victorious 
fleet of Perry, and having landed below Maiden, and taken possession of that 
place, he detached a force to take possession of Detroit, and then pursued his 
flying enemy to the banks of the Thames. Here, on the 5th of October, 1813, 
he found General Proctor, with upwards of 600 regulars, and 2000 Indians 
under Tecumseh, posted to receive him. They occupied a narrow strip of 
land, with the river on one side and a swamp on the other ; their left resting 
upon the river, supported by artillery, their right upon the swamp, covered by 
the whole Indian force. Occupying thus the whole space, a more extended 
front could not be presented to them than their own, and no advantage taken of 
superiority of numbers, if any existed. By a bold, brilliant, and original 
manoeuvre, which displayed the splendid military genius of the commander, 
the fate of the battle was instantly decided : General Harrison ordered the 
regiment of mounted infantry to be drawn up in close column, and at full 
speed to charge the enemy. The shock was irresistible. The British troops 
gave way on all sides, and 600 regulars, including 25 oflicers, laid down their 
arms and became prisoners of war. The Indians continued to fight with great 
and desperate courage, but were finally routed, and their celebrated Chief 

General in the Kentucky militia, and authorize him to take command. The appoint- 
ment received the general approbation of the people, and was hailed by the troops 
of Cincinnati with the most enthusiastic joy." — McJfee's History of the Last War^ 



24 THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

Tecumseh* slain on the field. In this decisive victory, the venerable Governor 
Shelby, a hero of the revolution, commanded, under General Harrison, the 
Kentucky volunteers; General Cass, late Secretary of War, and our present 
Minister in France, and Commodore Perry, acted as the Aides of General 
Harrison. All t!ie official papers of General Proctor were taken, and he him- 
self escaped with great difficulty from his pursuers ; property to the amount of 
a million of dollars was captured, and three pieces of brass cannon, trophies 
of the Revolutionary War, which had been taken from the British at Saratoga 
and York, and surrendered by Hull at Detroit, were recovered. This brilliant 
and decisive achievement, in which the American army was composed of vo- 
lunteers, mounted infantry, and only 120 regulars, was hailed in every quarter 
of the country with the liveliest demonstrations of joy and gratitude, and was 
celebrated from Maine to Louisiana, in most of our cities and chief towns, by 
illuminations. It at once put a period to the strife of arms in that quarter. 
The din of war was hushed, the husbandman returned to his plough, and the 
peaceful occupations of civil life were resumed. In referring to the official 
account of the action, Thomas Ritchie, the able editor of the Richmond In- 
quirer, remarked : — 

" General Harrison's detailed letter tells us of every thing we wish to know about the 
officers except himself. He does justice to every one but to Harrison, the world must 
therefore do justice to the man who was too modest to be just to himself ^ 

In the language of the Honourable Langdon Cheves, of South Carolina, on the 
floor of Congress, 

" This victory of Harrison was such as would have secured to a Roman general, in 
the best days of the Republic, the honors of a triumph. He put an end to the war in 
the uppermost Canada." 

The annual message of President Madison addressed to Congress, December 
7th, 1813, contained the following allusion to the victory of the Thames: — 

" The success on Lake Erie having opened a passage to the territory of the enemy, 
General Harrison, commanding the north-western army, transferred the war thither; 
and rapidly pursuing the hostile troops, fleeing with their savage associates, forced a 
general action, which quickly terminated in the capture of the British, and the disper- 
sion of the savage force. This result is signally honourable to Major General Harrison, 
by whose military talents it was achieved." 

Similar language was employed to express the universal joy at this result, by 
most of the governors of the diflierent States, in proclamations issued by the 
chief magistrates of the various cities, by Congress, and the several state legis- 
tures. Governor Snyder, of Pennsylvania, in his annual message to the Le- 
gislature, dated December 10th, 1813, remarked, 

"The blessings of thousands of women and children rescued from the scalping knife 
of the ruthless savage of the wilderness, and from the still more savage Proctor, rest 
on Harrison and his gallant army." 

Here ends the military career of General Harrison : and that title and that 
character which was accepted at the hands of Mr. Madison, when duty and the 
circumstances of the times required it, was cheerfully laid aside, when there 
was no longer a patriotic motive for its retention. His determination to with- 
draw from the army w^as in consequence of the jealousy of General Armstrong, 
Secretary of War, who, to the surprise of the nation, assigned him services far 
removed from any post of danger, and inferior to that which he had a right to 
expect. On learning the determination of General Harrison to resign his com- 

* "Tecumseh, who was shot at the battle of the Thames, was about forty-six years 
of age, of the Shawnoso tribe, erect and lofty in his deportment, with a penetrating 
eye, and stood six feet high ; of stern visage, artful, insidious in preparing enterprises, 
and bold in their execution. Among the Indians he was justly termed the 'Boldest 
Warrior of the West.' " 



THE LIFE OF GENERAL HARRISON. 25 

mission, the venerable and gallant Governor Shelby of Kentucky, wlio had 
served under him, addressed a letter, dated May 18th, 1814, to President Madi- 
son, urging him not to accept the resignation, but the President being on a visit 
to Virginia, did not receive it before General Armstrong, who was eager for 
General Harris9a to quit a service in which he was winning such imperishable 
laurels, had assumed the responsibility of otlicially acquiescing in his withdrawal 
from the army. The following is an extract from Governor Shelby's letter to 
Mr. Madison. 

" I feel no hesitation to declare to you, that I believe General Harrison to be one of 
the Jirst military characters lever knew ; and in addition to this, he is capable of making 
greater personal exertions than any officer with whom I have served. I doubt not but 
it will hereafter be found that the command of the north-western army, and the vari- 
ous duties attached to it, has been one of the most arduous and difficult tasks ever as- 
signed to any officer in the United States." 

General McArthur, who had also served under General Harrison, addressed 
his friend and old commander on the subject, in which he remarked : — 

" You, sir, stand the highest with the militia of this State of any general in the ser- 
vice, and I am confident that no man can fight them to so great advantage ; and I think 
their extreme solicitude may be the means of calling you to this frontier." 

The following resolution was passed by both branches of Congress, and ap- 
proved 4th of April, 1819. 

"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress be, and they are hereby 
presented to INIajor-General WiUiain Henry Harrison and Isaac !<helhy, late governor of 
Kentucky, and through them to the officers and men under their command, for their 
gallantry and good conduct in defeating the combined British and Indian forces under 
Major-General Proctor, on the Thames, in Upper Canada, on the 5th day of October, 
1813, capturinnr the British army, with their baggage, camp equipage, and artillery: 
and that the President of the United States be requested to cause two Gn/d MfdaU to 
be struck, emblematical of this triumph, and presented to General Harrison and Isaac 
Shelby, late governor of Kentucky." 

We cannot better illustrate the estimate of General Harrison, formed by one 
who knew him well, having served under him in several campaigns, than by 
making the following extract from a speech delivered in the House of Represen- 
tatives of the United States, March 2d, 1831, by the Honourable Richard M. 
•lohnson, of Kentucky, now Vice-President, on the bill for the relief of J. C. 
Harrison, deceased. 

"One of the securities is General William H. Harrison — and who is General Harri- 
son 1 The son of one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, who sp,°nt 
the greater part of his large fortune in redeeming the pledge he then gave of " his for- 
tune, life and sacred honour," to secure the liberty of his country. 

Of the career of General Harrison I need not speak — the history of the West is his 
history. For forty years he has been identified with its interests, its perils, and its 
hopes. Universally beloved in the walks of peace, and distinguished by his ability in 
the councils of his country, he has been yet more illustriously distinguished in the 
field. 

During the late war he was longer in active service than any other genera] officer ; 
he was perhaps oftener in action than any one of them, and never sustained a defeat.'''' 

In the year 1816, General Harrison was elected to Congress from the State 
of Ohio. In this station he served with great distinction, until the year 1819, 
when he was chosen a member of the state Senate. In 1824, he was elected 
a Senator of the United States, by the liCgislature of Ohio, and continued to 
serve with eminent ability in that distinguished body, performing the duties of 
chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the place of General Jackson, 
who had resigned, until the year 1828, when he was appointed Envoy Extra- 
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Colombia. Since the 
period of his return to the United States in 1829, he has continued to pursue 
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26 THE LIFP: OF GENERAL HARRISON. 

the elevating though laborious occupation of a husbandman on the banks of the 
Ohio. 

General Harrison is now about sixty-six years of age, but from his active and 
temperate habits, he enjoys in their full vigour his mental and physical powers. 
In his manners he is plain, frank, and unassuming ; in his disposition, cheerful, 
kind, and generous. With opportunities of amassing wealth, during his long 
administration of Indian affairs, while governor of Indiana, unless restrained 
by the most delicate and scrupulous integrity ; yet he came out of the service 
of his country with diminished means. During the whole period of iiis mili- 
tary services, amidst all the privations, toils, and sufferings of a war carried on 
in an uninhabited country, covered with swamp's and woods, lie never caused a 
soldier to be punished. Yet no General ever commanded the confidence, admi- 
ration, and obedience of the militia to a greater extent. When asked by a fel- 
low-officer how he managed to gain the control over his troops which he pos- 
sessed, he answered : 

" By treating them with affection and kindness — by always recollecting that they 
were my fellow-citizens, whose feelings I was bound to respect, and sharing on every 
occasion the hardships they were obliged to undergo." 

In September, 1829, while residing at Bogota, as Minister Plenipotentiary of 
the United States to t!ie Republic of Colombia, he addressed a letter to General 
Bolivar, at that time President of the Republic, but who it was feared intended 
to subvert the republican government and assume despotic power. The object 
was to dissuade him from taking so fatal a step, and the whole letter is replete 
with the soundest views and the noblest sentiments. "We thus perceive that 
the induence of the school in which he was reared has not been lost upon him. 
Born and bred among the heroes and sages of the Revolution, — drawing his prin- 
ciples fresh from the fountain of American liberty, his whole life has been spent 
in the service of his country. But great and brilliant as his military services 
have been, they did not excel his civil labours in duration or importance. Out 
of a period of thirty-seven years of public employment, eight or nine have been 
spent in bearing arms amidst the perds and privations of Indian and British 
warfare, but upwards of twenty in high and responsible offices of civil trust. 
In the eloquent language of one of his neighbours, "he is the son of one of the 
Signers of the Declaration of Independence — a distinguished patriot of the Re- 
volution; enrolled at nineteen in the ranks of his country's defenders; the favour- 
ite aide-de-camp of Wayne ; one of the victors of Miami ; the trusted com- 
mander of the important out-post of Fort Washington; the secretary to the 
north-western Territory ; its first delegate to Congress ; the author of the bene- 
ficent land system, by which honest setders were encouraged, and speculators 
rebuked; the popular governor of Indiana: the overtlirower of Tecumseh and 
his British allies ; the able diplomatist at the treaty of Vinccnnes. the Hero of 
Tippecanoe ; the gallant conqueror of XTpper Canada, and as gallantly victori 
ous at the Thames; a member of Congress in 1822, and a senator in 1824, in 
which station he advocated the reform of the militia system, and the appoint- 
ment of cadets of the sons of those who die in (defence of their country ; ani5 
also the prompt adjustment of the claims of the surviving officers and soldiera 
of the Revolution ; was minister to Colombia in 1828 ; and the author of the 
renowned letter to Bolivar." 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



The following address, which immedi- 
ately succeeded the biojrraphy of General 
Harrison, in the United States ■Military 
Magazine, was written l)y Tho.mas Fitnaim, 
Esq., a patriotic son of the " Emerald 
Isle," who has always been a Democrat, 
a Jackson man, and until recently a warm 
advocate of .Mr. Van Euren, but now an 
enthusiastic supporter of General Harri- 
son, whom, with so many thousands of 
his warm-hearted countrymen, he consi- 
ders a better and purer republican than 
the present chief magistrate of the nation. 

TO GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY 
HARRISON. 

BY THOMAS FITNAM, ESQ. 

Like tlic sun in its transit round heaven's 
great arch. 
Dispelling the gloom which obscures 
all beneath ; 
Thou, sir, in the van of our army didst 
march , 
Triumphantly forcing our foes to retreat. 

For courage and worth, virtue, honour, and 
sense. 
Thine stnndest the first mid illustri- 
ous names. 
Oh ! say, where's the man, if he could, 
would dispense 
With thy feat at Fort Meigs, or that of 
the Thames 1 

Those wreaths o'er thy brow which thy 
talents had gain'd 
On the field — in the Senate, are justly 
thy due ; 
They're free from those crimes with which 
others are stain'd. 
For they bear the bright impress of 
" Tippecanoe !" 

All those may feel proud who high sta- 
tions now hold. 
As gifts from the people, through party 
conferr'd ; 
But never! oh ! never ! let freemen be told. 
That through party alone should be 
claimants preferr'd. 



Then show me the soldier whose bosom 
responds 
To th'ennobling emotions of national 
pride; 
That would, if his country were threat- 
en'd with bonds, 
Be seen not contending with thee, side 
by side. 

I'd chain down the traitorous serf to the 
earth — 
I'd stamp on his forehead the brand of 
a slave ; 
His kind, to like ofrsi)ring, should never 
give birth. 
But all should descend to one ignoble 
grave. 

PhUadelphia, Ocloher 12/A, 1839, 



Opinions of the Democracy during the 
war, before the political paint brush iiad 
been employed to sully the fair fame of the 
brave and victorious defender of his coun- 
try. 

TAMMANY HALL AND GENERAL 
HARRISON. 

The following condensed account of a 
dinner given to the Hero of the Thames at 
Tammany Hall, when he was on his way 
to Washington from the scenes of his vic- 
tories, is copied from the New York Na- 
tional Advocate, of December 4th, 181.3, 
one of the organs of the war party. He 
was thc7i regarded as one of the fathers of 
his country. 

" Dinner in honour of General Harrison, 
— A public dinner was given at Tamma- 
ny Hall on Wednesday last, under the di- 
rection of the Republican General Commit- 
tee of New York, to Major-general Wil- 
liam H. Harrison. Thecompany assembled 
amounted to about three hundred persons. 
Tbe party was rendered highly interesting 
by the presence of the distinguished oflicer 
in whose honour it was given, of Governor 
Tompkins, and Major-generals Dearborn 
and Hampton, and Judge B. Livingston. 
A great number of the officers of the army 
and navy, and of the volunteer corps of 

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this city attended. The venerable patriot, I 
Colonel Ruto^ers, presided. General Smith, ( 
Colonel Swartwout, Alderman Buckrnas- 
ter, and Alderman Wendover, assisted as 
vice-presidents. 

The interior of the Hall was decorated 
with more than forty national flags and 
military standards, disposed with great I 
taste and effect, under the direction of I\Ir. 
Holland. Two elegant transparencies, 
from the pen of that gentleman, adorned the 
walls of the upper and lower ends of the 
room. The one represented General Harri- 
son receiving the submission of the savage 
allies of ' the defenders of our faith,' who 
were surrendering their weapons and the 
presents received from the British, to the 
conqueror, and offering their squaws and 
papooses as hostages of their fidelity. 
The other exhibited the American P^agle, 
standing on a rock in Lake Erie, and 
proudly expanding its wings over its wa- 
ters. From his beak proceeded a scroll 
inscribed ' E Pluribus Unum,' a view 
of the bank and distant waters of the 
Lake filled the perspective. The tout en- 
semble produced by the flags, the paintings, 
and a profusion of lights, was singularly 
picturesque and beautiful. 

On the exterior of the Hall was placed 
a very elegant transparency, also from the 
pen of Mr. Holland. In the foreground, 
several Indian chiefs were exhibited in 
postures of submission, imploring the cle- 
mency of General Harrison, who was 
pointing to a view in the distance of the 
battle of the gloriotis tenth of September. 
This transparency supported another in the 
form of an ellipsis, on which was inscribed 
in large capitals, 

" HARRISON." 

" PERRY." 

•' don't give up the ship." 

The transparencies were, we under- 
stand, presented by Mr. Holland; who 
generously volunteered his services in ar- 
ranging the decorations of the Hall. 

Five' tables, containing sixty covers each, 
and furnished most plentifully with excel- 
lent dishes, were provided for the company. 
Ornamented representations of castles, py- 
ramids, &c. &c., displaying the American 
flag, were arranged on the tables at ap- 
propriate distances, and produced a most 
brilliant and pleasing effect. Too much 
credit cannot be bestowed on Messrs. 
Maitling and Cozzens, for the elegant and 
liberal manner in which their visitors were 
provided. 

The distinguished guests were received 
at the dining hall, with the music of' Hail 
Columbia,' from a full and excellent band. 



As soon as the company had assembled 
at the table, an appropriate prayer was 
offered by the Rev. Mr. Van Pelt. A simi- 
lar ceremony was observed at the removal 
of the cloth. 

After dinner the following toasts were 
drank, interspersed with excellent songs 
from gentlemen of the company, and mu- 
sic from the band." 

The regular toasts then follow, which 
our limited space precludes us from in- 
serting. Among the volunteer toasts are 
those of General Harrison, General Hamp- 
ton and General Dearborn. The one by 
General Harrison is as follows : 

" By General Harrison. — The freedom 
of the seas and the adoption by our go- 
vernment of the Roman maxim, which se- 
cured to the citizen his inviolability." 
Twelve cheers. 

The account thus proceeds: — "After 
General Dearborn, General Hampton and 
Governor Tompkins had retired, the Presi- 
dent gave the following : 

" Major-general Harrison — The deli- 
verer of our western frontier." Seventeen 
cheers. 

" Major-general Dearborn." Twelve 
cheers. 

" Major-general Hampton." Twelve 
cheers. 

" Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of the 
State of New York." Twelve cheers. 



The Democratic Press, of Decemoer IG, 
1813, contains the following leading edito- 
rial paragraph : 

"Major-general Harrison is this evening 
to attend the new theatre in Chestnut 
street, to see Mr. Duff perform Macbeth. 
That the theatre will be crowded, and that 
the GALLANT Harrison will receive the 
applause he so well merits, we have no 
doubt. We regret to learn that the General 
is in so much of a hurry to reach the seat 
of the General Government, that he cannot 
accept the testimonials of public approba- 
tion which were intended for him by the 
citizens of Philadelphia." 



Hear the Editor of the Richmond En- 
quirer in 1813, the7i a Republican, but now 
the venerable advocate of the ''^spoils par- 

From my old Democratic friend, Ritchie, 
1813. 
From the Richmond Enquirer. 
u JOY— JOY IN LONDON NOW !" 
We have not words to express the joy 
which we feel for the Victory of Harri- 
son. Never have we seen the public pulse 



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beat so high. The shouts and cheers of the 
immense multitude which had flocked to 
the Coffee room and Post Office on Satur- 
day nitrht, on reading the oflicial news from 
Washington, were loud and long beyond 
description. Yesterday the scene of joy 
and congratulation continued. " At eleven 
o'clock, Captain Stephenson's corps of ar- 
tillery fired a grand federal salute. In the 
evening the city was illuminated." 

" And well may we rejoice. We rejoice 
not so much for the splendour of this achieve- 
ment, as for the solid benefits which it will 
produce. Yet in point of splendour we 
have no reason to believe that when we re- 
ceive the official account, we shall receive 
any disappointment. The skill with which 
the plan was contrived for overreaching 
the flying enemy, the small portion of Har- 
rison's force which was able to come up 
and cope with him, consisting principally 
of mounted Rangers under Johnson and 
Ball, and the short period in which the 
victory was achieved, will, we are inclined 
to suspect, impart to it the character of a 
most gallant and brilliant achievement. 
But its solid effects require no offcial ac- 
counts to emblazon them ; it gives secu- 
rity to the frontier. Ohio may now sleep 
in security. The trembling mother that 
nightly used to clasp her infant to her 
breast, may rock its cradle in peace." 

Capital, capital. How well the crittur 
wrote in 1813. 



The following anecdotes and incidents 
in the life of General Harrison, have been 
collected from various authentic sources. 



Interesting anecdote of General Harri- 
son's father, on the occasion of signing the 
Declaration of Independence : — 

A curious anecdote is on record, illustra- 
tive of the cheerful temper and intrepidity 
of General Harrison's father, who was 
identified with every turn in the fortunes 
of his country ; at a period when that 
country was convulsed by a struggle in 
which all its rights and very existence 
were involved. Elbridge Gerry, a dele- 
gate from Massachusetts, as slender and 
spare as Mr. Harrison was vigorous and 
portljs stood beside Harrison, whilst sign- 
ing the declaration. Harrison turned round 
to him with a smile, as he raised his 
hand from the paper, and said, "When the 
hanging scene comes to be exhibited, I 
shall have all the advantage over you. It 
will be over with me in a minute, but you 
will be kicking in the air half an hour 
after I am sfone." 



Appointment by Thomas Jefferson, in 
1803:— 

The following is a copy of the message 
of Thnriias Jejj'trsoiu nominating General 
Harrison sole commissioner to treat with 
the Indians. 

"I nominate W'illiam Henry Harrison, of 
Indiana, to be a commissioner to enter into 
ANY treaty or treaties which may be neces- 
sary, with any Indian tribes, northwest of 
the Ohio, and within the territory of the 
United States, on the subject of the boun- 
dary, or lands. 

(Signed) Thomas Jefferson." 

The message containing tliese nomina- 
tions was transmitted to the senate of the 
United States, on the 3d day of F'ebruary, 
1803, read on the 4th, and on the 8th taken 
up for consideration, vv^hen the nomination 
of William Henry Harrison, above recited, 
received the unanimous sanction of that 
honourable body. 

Council of Vincennes, 12th of August, 
1810:— 

In September, 180f), Governor Harrison 
held a council at Fort Wayne, and nego- 
tiated a treaty with the Miamies, Dela- 
wares, Patawatamies, and Kickapoos, by 
which he succeeded in purchasing from 
those tribes an extensive tract of country 
on both sides of the Wabash, and extend- 
ing up that river more than sixty miles 
above Vincennes. The tribes who owned 
these lands were paid for them by certain 
annuities which they considered a satisfac- 
tory equivalent. 

Tecumseh was absent when this treaty 
was made, and the Prophet, not feeling 
himself interested, had not opposed it; but 
on the return of Tecumseh, some months 
after, both he and his brother expressed 
great dissatisfaction, and even threatened 
to put to death all those chiefs who had 
signed the treaty. Hearing this, and anx- 
ious too to ascertain their intentions from 
themselves, if possible. Governor Harrison 
despatched messengers to invite them both 
to Vincennes, and to assure them that any 
claims they might have to these lands 
were not affected by the treaty ; but that 
if they would come to Vincennes and ex- 
hibit their pretensions, and they should be 
found to be valid, the lands would be given 
up or an ample compensation made for 
them. Tecumseh came without his bro- 
ther — and though the governor, having no 
confidence in his good faith, had requested 
him not to bring with him more than thirty 
warriors, he came with four hundred, com- 
pletely armed. The governor held a coun- 
cil on the 12th of August, 1810, at which 
Tecumseh and forty of these warriors were 
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present. The g'overnor was attended by 
the judges of the supreme court, several 
officers of the army, Winnemack, a friendly 
chief, and a few unarmed citizens. A ser- 
g-eani's guard of twelve men was likewise 
placed near him, but as the day was ex- 
ceedingly sultry, and they were exposed 
to the sun, the governor, with his charac- 
teristic humanity, directed them to remove 
to a shaded spot at some distance. 

Tecurnseh addressed this council with a 
speech, in which he openly avowed the 
designs of himself and his brother. He 
declared it to be their intention to form a 
coalition of all the red men, to prevent the 
whites from extending their settlements 
farther west — and to establish the principle 
that the Indian lands belonged in common 
to all the tribes, and could not be sold 
without their united consent. He again 
avowed their intention to put to death all 
the chiefs who had signed the treaty at 
Fort Wayne, yet, with singular inconsis- 
tency, he at the same time denied all inten- 
tion to make war, and declared that all 
those who had given such information to 
the governor, were liars. This was aimed 
particularly at Winnemack, from whom 
the governor had received a timely notice 
of the designs of Tecurnseh and his brother. 

Governor Harrison replied to Tecurnseh 
in a mild and conciliatory tone, explaining 
the treaty at Fort Wayne, and clearly 
proving that all the chiefs whose tribes had 
any claims upon the land ceded at this time 
to the United States, were present at the 
treaty and had voluntarily signed it — and 
that they had sold these lands for an an- 
nuity which they considered a sufficient 
compensation. The interpreter to the 
Shawnees explained the governor's speech 
to the warriors of that tribe, but when the 
interpreter to the Patawatamies was about 
to begin, Tecurnseh interrupted him in a 
rude and insulting manner, using the most 
vehement language and the most violent 
gesticulation, and loudly declaring that all 
the governor had said was false, and that 
he and the United States had cheated and 
ini])osed upon the Indians. As he uttered 
this, his warriors sprung to their feet, and 
began to brandish their tomahawks and 
warclubs, their eyes all fiercely turned 
upon the governor. Harrison rose imme- 
diately and drew his sword. The friendly 
chief Winnemack cocked a pistol with 
which he was armed, and some of the offi- 
cers in attendance drew their weapons and 
stood on the defensive. During this criti- 
cal moment not a word was spoken, until 
the guard came running up, and were about 
to fire on the Indians, when the governor, 
with singular coolness and presence of 
mind, restrained them. He then turned to 



Tecumseb, and calmly but authoritatively 
told him that " he was a bad man — that he 
would hold no further talk with him — and 
that he must now return to his camp, and 
take his departure from the settlements 
without delay." The council was imme- 
diately broken up, and Tecurnseh and his 
warriors, awed by the coolness and intre- 
pidity of the governor, withdrew in si- 
lence. 

The next morning Tecurnseh, finding 
that he had to deal with a man of firmness 
and undaunted bravery, whom he could 
neither intimidate by his audacious vio- 
lence nor disconcert by his cunning ma- 
noeuvres, solicited another intervieM' with 
the governor, and apologized for the im- 
proprieties he had committed at the council 
the day before. 

Still anxious to conciliate this haughty 
savage, the governor afterwards paid him 
a visit to his own camp, with no other 
attendant than the interpreter. Tecurnseh 
received him with courtesy and much at- 
tention ; his uniform kindness and inflexi- 
ble firmness having won the respect of the 
rude warrior; but he still persisted in ri- 
gidly adhering to the policy he had avowed 
at the council on the preceding day. 

Testimony of General Jlnthony Wayne, 
a gallant son of Pennsylvania, in favour 
of LIEUT. W. H. HARRISON, in the 
brilliant and decisive victory oi Maumee.- — 

The following is an extract from the offi- 
cial report of Gen. Wayne, of the 27th of 
August, 1794, giving an account of his 
celebrated battle of Maumce: 

" The bravery and conduct of every offi- 
cer belonging to the army, from the gene- 
rals down to the ensigns, merit my highest 
approbation. There were, however, some 
whose rank and situation placed their con- 
duct in a very conspicuous point of view, 
and which I observed with pleasure and 
the most lively gratitude : among whom I 
beg leave to mention Brigadier-general 
Wilkinson, and Colonel Hamtramack, the 
commandants of the right and left wings 
of the legion, whose brave example in- 
spired the troops ; and to these I nmst add 
the names of my faithful and gallant aids- 
de-cainp. Captain De Butts and T. Lewis, 
and Lieutenant Harrison, who, with the 
Adjutant-general, Major Mills, rendered 
the most essential service by commtwicaiing 
my orders in every direction, and by their 
conduct and bravery exciting the troops to 
press for victory. ^^ 

W. H. Harrison, as Governor of Indiana 
Territory in 1805 :— 

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administering the affiiirs of the Indiana 
Territory, was repeatedly approved by the 
legislative council and house of repre- 
sentatives. In 1805, the former, in reply 
to the message of .the governor, says : — 

" The confidence which our fellow-citi- 
zens have uniformly had in your adminis- 
tration, has been such that they have hith- 
erto had no reason to be jealous of the un- 
limited power which you possess over our 
legislative proceedings. We, however, 
cannot help regretting that such powers 
have been lodged in the hands of any one, 
especially when it is recollected to what 
dangerous lengths the exercise of those 
powers may be extended." 

The house of representatives, in their 
reply, made the following remarks : — 

" Accept, sir, the thanks of the house of 
representatives for the speech you made to 
both houses of the legislature on the open- 
ing 0? the present session. In it we dis- 
cern the solicitude for the future happiness 
and prosperity of the territory, which has 
been uniformly evinced by your past ad- 
ministration." 

The following anecdote must be pecu- 
liarly gratifying to the base revilers of their 
country's brave defender : — 

A gentleman who had the anecdote from 
the lips of the late General Tipton himself, 
has been so kind as to commit it to writing 
for our use. — Yeoman. 

During the last presidential contest, the 
military claims of General Harrison were 
freely canvassed, and some of his oppo- 
nents did not scruple to charge him with a 
want of courage. The late General Tip- 
ton, of the United States senate, who had 
served as an ensign at the battle of Tippe- 
canoe, was asked by a friend, " what think 
you, general, of Harrison's courage V 
He replied, " I think him as brave a man 
as ever lived — no one could have behaved 
with more true courage than he did ; while 
the engagement was hottest, and when the 
bullets tlew thickest, he was to be seen 
speaking in his ordinary tone, and giving 
command with the greatest precision. The 
company to which I belonged," said Gen- 
eral Tipton, " went into action eighty 
strong, and only twenty survived ; the 
firing upon us was most tremendous. Af- 
ter the general had made his arrangements 
for repelling the attack of the Indians at 
other points, he rode up to where I was, 
and made the following inquiries : 'Where's 
your captain?' He is dead, sir. ' Where 
is the first or second-lieutenant ]' They 
are both dead, was the reply. ' Well, 
where is the ensign ]' He stands before 
you. ' Well, my brave fellow,' said Har- 



rison, 'hold your ground for five minutes 
longer, and all will be safe.' " In fifu^en 
minutes the enemy was repulsed on all 
sides. Tipton gallantly led on his few 
remaining comrades to the charge, and vic- 
tory perched upon the American banner. 

As an evidence of Harrison's coolness 
in the midst of danger, General Tipton 
stated, that at the moment the conversation 
ended between himself and General Harri- 
son, and as the horse upon which Avas 
mounted his aid, the late General Taylor, 
of Indiana, was in the act of turning, a 
rifle ball pierced him through the body, and 
brought him to the ground, catching his 
rider's legs under him. It was a favourite 
black horse of the general's, and he ex- 
claimed. " Ah, is my gallant old black 
gone ! Well, rise and mount again, for 
w^e have no time to mourn the loss of a 
horse, when so many brave ones are ex- 
posed to a similar fate" — and having re- 
mounted his aid, he dashed into the midst 
of the danger. In a few minutes the battle 
was over. 

Governor Harrison pardons the negro 
who attempted to assassinate him : — 

Ben, a negro who belonged to the camp, 
deserted and went over to the Indians, and 
entered into a conspiracy to assassinate 
Governor Harrison, at the time the savages 
commenced their attack. Being appre- 
hended whilst lurking about the governor's 
marquee, waiting an opportunity to accom- 
plish his fell purpose, he was tried by a 
court-martial, and sentenced to be shot. 
The execution of this sentence was delay- 
ed for a short time, in consequence of the 
troops being engaged in fortifying the camp. 
In the mean time, the negro was put into 
Indian stocks, that is, a log split open, 
notches cut in it to fit the culprit's legs, 
the upper piece then laid on, and the whole 
firmly staked into the ground. The gover- 
nor interposed, and pardoned the culprit. 
The reason assigned by the governor for 
his clemency, was as follows : " The fact 
was, that I began to pity him, and could 
not screw myself up to the point of giving 
the fatal order. If he had been out of my 
sight, he would have been executed. The 
poor wretch lay confined before my fire, his 
face receiving the rain that occasionally 
fell, and his eyes constantly turned upon 
me as if imploring mercy. I could not 
withstand the appeal, and I determined to 
give him another chance for his life." 

Hear a political opponent : — 

Judge Hall, himself an officer in the 
late war with Great Britain, in speaking 
of the battle of Tippecanoe, says : " As 



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far as any commander is entitled to credit, inde- 
pondent of his army, he (Cieneral Harrison) 
merits and has received it. He shared every 
danger and fatigue to which his army was ex- 
posed. In the battle he was in more peril than 
any other individual; for he was personally 
known to every Indian, and exposed himself 
fearlessi}', on horseback, at all points of the at- 
tack, during the whole engagement. Every 
important movement was made hy his express 
order." 

Hear the testimony of a gallant and distin- 
guished officer of the late war : — 

General John O'Fallon, now residing in St. 
Louis, a nephew of General George Rogers 
Clark, and a gallant officer of the last war, 
having distinguished himself at the siege of 
Fort Meigs and the battle of the Thames, in a 
late speech, at a public meeting in that city, in 
speaking of General Harrison, says: 

" At the age of nineteen, I first became ac- 
quainted with the distinguished patriot in 
whose behalf we have assembled, and having 
V)cen by his side through nearly the whole of 
the late war, I can bear testimony to his cool, 
undaunted and collected courage, as well as to 
his skill, as an alile, efficient, and active officer. 
After the battle of Tippecanoe, which has thrown 
so much glory over our country's arms, it w(is 
univer-salli/ admitted that General Harrison 
was the only officer that could have saved the 
army from defeat and massacre. 

Effects of General Harrison's eloquence and 
example upon his soldiers ; also proofs of his 
kindness and disinterestedness, and absence of 
every selfish consideration: — 

It was General Harrison's constant practice 
to address his troops, pers(mally, believing it to 
be more effectual than the common mode of 
general orders. He never omitted an opportu- 
nity of setting his troops the example of cheer- 
fully submitting to those numerous and severe 
privations, incident to the carrying on of mili- 
tary operations, in an almost trackless desert, 
and in the most inclement seasons. 

During the campaign on the Wabash, the 
troops were put upon a half a pound of bread 
per day. This quantity only was allowed to 
the officers of every rank, and rigidly conformed 
to in the general's own family. The allowance 
for dinner was uniformly divided between the 
company, and not an atom more was permitted. 
In the severe winter campaign of 1812-13, he 
slept under a thinner tent than any other per- 
son, whether officer or soldier ; and it was the 
general observation of the officers, that his ac- 
commodations might generally be known, by 
their being the worst in the army. Upon the 
expedition up the Thames all his baggage was 
contained in a valise, while his bedding con- 
sisted of a single blanket, fastened over his 
saddle, and even this he gave to Colonel Evans, 
a British officer who was wounded. His sub- 



sistence was exactly that of a common sol- 
dier. 

On the night, after the action upon the 
Thames, ihirty-five British otficeis supjied with 
him upon fresh beef roasted before the fire, 
without either salt or bread, and without ardent 
spirits of any kind. Whether upon the march 
or in the camp, the whole army was regularly 
under arms at daybreak. Upon no occasion 
did he fail to be out himself, however severe the 
weather, and was generally the first officer on 
horseback of the whole army. Indeed, he made 
it a point on every occasion, to set an example of 
fortitude and patience to his men, and to share 
with them every hardship, difficulty, and dan- 
ger. 

One of the many evidences of General Har- 
rison's high sense of justice, magnanimity, and 
scrupulous regard for the feelings and interests 
of others: — 

A few years ago, it was ascertained that a 
large tract of land near Cincinnati, which had 
been sold some time before for a mere trifle, 
under an execution against the original pi-oprie- 
tor, could not be held by the titles derived from 
the purchasers, on account of some irregularity 
in the proceedings. The legal title was in 
General Harrison and another gentleman, who 
were the heirs at law. This tract of land was 
exceedingly valuable, and would have consti- 
tuted a princely estate for both these heirs, had 
they chosen to insist on their legal rights : or 
they might have made some amicable arrange- 
ment with the purchasers, to which they would 
gladly have assented, and have retained at least 
one half of this property, by giving up the re- 
mainder. But General Harrison had never yet 
suflercd his interest to blind his true sense of 
justice and high-minded honour, nor did he in 
this instance. On being informed of the situa- 
tion of this property, he obtained the assent of 
his co-heir, and immediately executed deeds in 
fee simple to the purchasers, without claiming 
any consideration except the trifling difference 
between the actual value of the land when 
sold and the amount paid at the sherifi''s sale. 
There were in this tract, too, twelve acres of 
General Harrison's private property by donation 
from his father-in-law, which had been impro- 
perly included in the sale, and which he might 
have retained both legally and equitably ; but 
such was his nice sense of honour and scrupu- 
lous regard for the rights of others, that he suf- 
fered even these twelve acres to be included in 
the deed given to the purchasers. This portion 
of the land thus relinquished by General Har- 
rison, is now worth more than one hundred 
thousand dollars ! 

A patriotic and republican toast: — 
The following sentiment was offered by Ge- 
neral Harrison at a public entertainment : 

" The people will remember, that to preserve 
their liberties, they must do their own voting, 
and their own fighting" 




General Harrison at the BaUte oj ihe 2huVKs,—^. 32. 



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In the autumn of 1S22, General Harrison, 
being a canilidate for congress, published a short 
address to the voters of his district, in which he 
sums up his political principles. We subjoin 
a portion of it,* breathing the pure spirit of 
sound republicanism. 

'■ I believe, that upon the preservation of the 
union of the states depends the existence of 
our civil and religious liberties ; and that the 
cement which binds it together is not a parcel 
of words, written upon paper or parchments, 
but the brotherly love and regard which the 
citizens of the several states possess for each 
other. Destroy this, and the beautiful fabric 
which was reared and embellished by our an- 
cestors crumbles into ruins. From its dis- 
jointed parts no temple of liberty will again 
be reared. Discord and wars will succeed 
to peace and harmony — barbarism will again 
overspread the land ; or, what is scarcely bet- 
ter, some kingly tyrant will promulgate the de- 
crees of his will, from the seat where a Wash- 
ington and a Jelferson dispensed the blessings 
of a free and equal government. I believe it, 
therefore, to be the duty of a representative, to 
conciliate, by every possible means, the members 
of our great political family, and always to bear 
in mind that as the union was effected only by 
a spirit of mutual concessio7i and forbearance, 
so only can it he preserved." 

In the year 1824, the legislature of Ohio 
elected General Harrison to the senate of the 
United States, in which body, soon after taking 
his seat, he succeeded General Jackson as chair- 
man of the committee on military affairs. 
While a member of that body, among other 
measures, he strongly advocated a bill giving a 
preference, in the appointment of cadets to the 
military academy at West Point, to the sons 
of those who had fallen, in battle, in their 
country's service. 

While in the senate, John Randolph, of Vir- 
ginia, took occasion to renew an old cliargc 
against General Harrison, of his having been a 
black-cockade federalist of '98, and of having 
voted for the alien and sedition laws of that 
period. As soon as Mr. Randolph had taken 
his seat. General Harrison rose, and with re- 
markable coolness and temper, considering the 
virulent and unprovoked character of the at- 
tack, he observed : " the extraordinary man- 
ner in which his name had been brought be- 
fore the senate, by the senator from Virginia, 
probably required some notice from him, though 
he scarcely knew how to treat sueli a charge 
as had iieen advanced against him seriously. 
The gentleman had charged him with being a 
black-cockade federalist of '98, and with having 
voted for the standing army and the alien and 
sedition laws. He had not so fertile a memory 
as the gentleman from Virginia, nor could he at 
command call up all the transactions of nearly 



* Sketches, &c. 



thirty years ago. He could say, however, that 
at the time alluded to, he was not a party mari 
in the sense the senator from Virginia used. 
He was a delegate of a territory which was 
just then rising into importance, and having 
no vote on the general questions before Con- 
gress, it was neither his duty nor the interest 
of those whom he represented to plunge into 
the turbulent sea of general politics which 
then agitated the nation. There were ques- 
tions of great importance to the north-vvestcru 
territory before Congress, questions upon the 
proper settlement of which the future prosperity 
of that now important portion of the llniou 
greatly depended. Standing, as he did, the sola 
representative of that territorv, his greatest am- 
bition was to prove himself faithful to his trust, 
by cherishing its interests, and nothing could 
have been more suicidal or pernicious to those 
he represented, than for him to exasperate either 
party by becoming a violent partisan, without 
the power of aiding either party, because he 
had no vote on any political question. This 
was his position, and although he had his poli- 
tical principles as firmly llxed as those of the 
gentleman from Virginia, it was no business of 
his to strike where he could not be felt, and 
where the blow must recoil upon himself and 
those whom he represented. He wore no 
cockade, black or tri-coloured, at that day — and 
never wore one but when he was in the mili- 
tary service of his country. But he was seri- 
ously charged with the heinous offence of as- 
sociation with federal gentlemen. He plead 
guilty — he respected the revolutionary services 
of President Adams, and had paid him that 
courtesy which was due to him as a man anrl 
as chief magistrate. He also associated with 
such men as John Marshall and James A. Bay- 
ard — was the acknowledgment of such guilt to 
throw him out of the pale of political salva- 
tion 1 

" On the other hand he was on intimate terms 
with Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Gallatin, and with the 
whole Virginia delegation, among whom he 
had many kinsmen and dear friends. They 
were his principal associates in Philadeljohia, in 
whose mess he had often met the gentleman 
who was now his accuser, and with whom he 
bad spent some of the happiest hours of his 
life. It was true, as the senator had alleged, he 
had been appointed governor of the north-west- 
ern territory by John Adams — so had he been 
by Thomas Jcllerson and James Madison. He 
was not in congress when the standing army was 
created, and the alien and sedition laws were 
passed, and if he had been, he could not have 
voted for them, and would not if ho could. It 
was not in his nature to be a violent or pro- 
scri[)tive partisan, but he had given a firm sup- 
port to the republican administrations of Jef- 
ferson, Madison and Monroe. He ho{)ed the 
senator from Virginia was answered — he was 
sure the senate must be wearied with this frivo- 
lous and unprofitable squabble.' " 



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35 



INVITATION TO THE LOG CABIN BOYS, 

TO OLD TIPPECANOE'S RAISIN'. 

Tune— The g-ooil old days of Mam and Kve. 

Come, all you Log Cabin Boys, we're going to 

have a raisin'. 
We've got a job on hand, that we think will be 

pleasin', 
We'll turn out and build Old Tip a new Cabin, 
And finish it oil' with chinUin' and daubiti'. 
We want all the Log Cabin Boys in the nation, 
To be on the ground when we lay the founda- 
tion ; 
And we'll make all the office-holders think its 

amazin'. 
To see how we work at Old Tippecanoe's 
raisin'. 

On the thirtieth of next October, 

We'll take some Hard Cider, but we'll all keep 
sober ; 

We'll slioulder our axes and cut down the 
timber. 

And have our Cabin done by the second of De- 
cember, 

We'll have it well chink'd, and we'll Iiave on 
the cover 

Of good sound clapboards, with the weight 
poles over. 

And a good wide chimney for the fire to blaze 
in : 

So come on boys, to Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 

Ohio will find the houselog timber, 

And Old Virginia, as you'll remember, 

Will find the timber for the clapboards and 

chinkin' — 
'Twill all be the first rate stuff I'm thinkin' ; 
And when we want to daub it, it happens very 

lucky 
That we have got the best Clay in Old Ken- 
tucky ; 
For there's no other State has such good clays in. 
To make the mortar for Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 

For the hauling of the logs, we'll call on Penn- 
sylvania, 

For their Conestoga teams will pull as well as 
any. 

And the Yankee States and York State, and 
all of the others. 

Will come and help us lift like so many bro- 
thers. 

The Hoosiers and the Suckers, and the Wolve- 
rine farmers. 

They all know the right way to carry up the 
corners. 

And every one's a good enough carpenter and 
mason. 

To do a little work at Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 

We'll cut out a window and have a wide door 

in, 
We'll lay a good loft and a first rate floor in. 
We'll fix it all complete, for Old Tip to see his 

friends in. 



And we know that the latch-string will never 

have its end in, 
On the fourth day of March, Old Tip will 

move in it. 
And then little Mar/in will have to shin it, 
So hurrah Boys, there's no two ways in 
The fun we'll have at Old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 



Another proof of the genuine repulilicanism 
and goodness of heart of the people's candi- 
date for the Presidency : — 

FniMi till- Now Orloiins Trtif Amoricnn. 
THE OLD SOLDIER. 
" I was dining with General Harrison in the 
spring of 1839," said a genlloman to us, a day 
or two ago, " and while in tlie miilst of our re- 
past, a loud knock was heard at the door. My 
host rose from the table, excused himself, and 
went to the door to see who it wa^^ that was so 
desirous of admittance. After a parley of some 
moments wiih a person who spoke in a rough 
tone of voice, the General ushered into the 
room a very old man, whose worn out and tat- 
tered garments bespoke great distress and 
poverty." 

'■ ' .\lr. ,' said General Harrison, ' this 

is one of my soldiers, and I have invited him 
in to dine with us. JIc was with me in the 
sortie of Fort Meigs and at the Thames. I ro- 
member his bravery well. Tlu'se are the men 
whom we must honour. — Take that seat, 
George. 

" George, for that was the old soldier's name," 
continued our friend, " sat down and soon gavo 
us cause to know that a good dinner and he had 
been strangers for many a long day. The old 
fellow's feelings became enlivened by the good 
things he had partaketi of, and a glass or two 
of whisky and water, and for nearly two hours, 
did the General and he fight their battles over 
again. Towards evening, the General took me 
aside, and asked me to join with him in the 
charity he was about to bestow. I cheerfully 
consented. The General went to his bed-room, 
and in a few moments returned with a new 
black coat. 

" 'George,' said the Hero, ' this is the only 
coat I have, except the thread-bare one on my 
back. Take it, and while it protects you from 
the inclement winds of cold spring, remember, 
that had your old General his way, eve-y old 
soldier in the country should not know what 
want was the rest of his days.' 

" I added my mite to George's empty purse, 
and gave him ' silver' enough to carry him homo 
into the interior of Ohio — for he had been t(» 
New Orleans on a flatboat and was now on tun 
return. 

" ' You will take this note,' said the Ger>iral, 
♦ and when you get to Cincinnati, call on Mr. 

j M , give him this, and he wili further 

I aid you. I am like yourself, George, i>oor, and 
I have to labour for my living, after long toil and 
[ hard work in the service of my country ; but wo 



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poor soldiers enjoy at least the proud conscious- 
ness of having done our duty.' 

" After some further conversation, George 
departed, thanking his old General from his 
heart. This little circumstance turned the con- 
versation between the General and myself upon 
the hardships of the last war, the faithfulness 
of his troops, and the true policy that the go- 
vernment ought to pursue to its surviving de- 
fenders." This anecdote, however, will serve 
to show you the kind-hearted goodness of the 
old General, and it proves that if he is elected 
President, he will be the President of the peo- 
ple — accessible to all. 

A CALUMNY REFUTED. 

" Selling white men fur debt." 
This infamous charge against General Hah- 
HTsoN, which has again and again been shown 
to be destitute of a particle of truth, is still, we 
hear repeated by some of the unscrupulous de- 
magogues in the service of the Administration. 
We once again, at some inconvenience, repub- 
lish a letter written by General Harrison him- 
self in IS21, when the charge was first made, 
and nailing the falsehood to the counter. 

To any man who shall hereafter repeat this 
calumny, we beg to say to him, as the Louis- 
ville Journal does: "Imagine us at your elbow, 
and whispering in your ear, ' what you have 
said is fu/se. and you know it to be fake.' " — 
Richmond Whig. 
To the Cincinnati Advertiser .- 

Sir — In your paper of the 15th instant, I 
observed a most violent attack upon eleven other 
members of the late Senate and myself, for a 
supposed vote given at the last session for the 
passage of a law to " sell debtors in certain 
cases." If such had been our conduct, I ac- 
kftowledge that we should not only deserve the 
censure which the writer has bestowed upon us, 
but the execration of every honest man in 
society. An act of that kind is not only op- 
posed to the principles of justice and humanity, 
but would be a palpable violation of the consti- 
tution of the state, which every legislator is 
sworn to support ; and sanctioned by a house 
of representatives and twelve senators, it would 
indicate a state of depravity which would till 
every patriotic bosom with the most alarming 
anticipations. But the fact is, that no such 
proposition was ever made in the legislature 
or even thought of. The act to which the 
Writer alludes, has no more relation to the col- 
lection of ' debts,' than it has to the discovery 
of longitude. It was an act for the punishment 
of offences against the state, and that part of it 
which has so deeply wounded your corres- 
pondent, was passed by the house of repre- 
sentatives, and voted for by twelve senators, 
under the impression that it was the most 
mild and humane mode of dealing with the of- 
fenders for whose cases it was intended. It 
was adopted by the house of representatives as 
a part of the general system of the criminal law, 



which was then undergoing a complete revi- 
sion and amendment ; the necessity of this is 
evinced by the following facts : For several 
years past, it had become apparent that the Peni- 
tentiary system was becoming more and more 
burdensome at every session ; a large appropri- 
ation was called for to meet the excess of expen- 
diture, above the receipts of the establishment. 
In the commencement of tlie session of 1820, 
the deficit amounted to near twenty thousand 
dollars. 

This growing evil required the immediate in- 
terposition of some vigorous legislative measure ; 
two were recommended as being likely to pro- 
duce the efli3ct ; first, placing the institution 
under better management ; and secondly, lessen- 
ing the number of convicts who were sentenced 
for short periods, and whose labour was found 
of course to be most unproductive. In pursu- 
ance of the latter principle, thefts to the amount 
of fifty dollars, or upwards, were subjected to 
punishment in the Penitentiary, instead of ten 
dollars, which was the former minimum sum ; 
this was easily done. But the great difficulty 
remained to determine what should be the pun- 
ishment of those numerous larcenies below the 
sum of fifty dollars. By some, whipping was 
proposed ; by others, punishment by hard labour 
in the county jails ; and by others, it was thought 
best to make them work on tlie highways. To 
all these there appeared insuperable objec- 
tions : fine and imprisonment were adopted by 
the house of representatives, as the only alter- 
native ; and as it was well known that these 
vexatious pilferings were generally perpetrated 
by the more worthless vagabonds in society, it 
was added that when they could not pay fines 
and costs, which are always part of the sentence 
and punishment, their services should be sold 
out to any person who would pay their fines 
and costs for them. This was the clause that 
was passed, as I believe, by a unanimous vote 
of the House, and stricken out in the Senate, in 
opposition to the twelve who have been de- 
nounced. A little further trouble in examining 
the journals, would have shown your corres- 
pondent that this was considered as a substitute 
for whipping, which was lost only by a single 
vote in the Senate, and in the House by a small 
majority, after being once passed. 

I think, Mr. Editor, I have said enough to 
show that this obnoxious law would not have 
applied to "unfortunate debtors of sixty-fjur 
years," but to infamous offenders, who depre- 
date upon the property of their fellow-citizens, 
and who, by the constitution of the state, as 
well as the j)rinciple of existing laws, were sub- 
ject to involuntary servitude. I must confess I 
had no very sanguine expectations of a beneficial 
effect from this measure, as it would apply to 
convicts who had attained the age of maturity; 
but I had supposed that a woman or a youth, 
who, convicted of an olTence, remained in jail 
for the payment of the fine and costs imposed, 
might with great advantage be transferred to 
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family, whose precept and example would 
greatly lead them back to the paths of recti- 
tude. 

I would appeal to the candour of your corres- 
pondent to say, whether if there were an indi- 
vidual confined under the circumstances I have 
mentioned, for whose fate he was interested, 
he would not gladly see him transferred, from 
the filthy enclosure of a jail, and the still more 
filthy inhahitants, to the comfortable mansion 
of some virtuous citizen, whose admonitions 
would check his vicious propensities, and whose 
authority over him would be no more than is 
exercised over thousands of apprentices in our 
country, and those bound servants, which are 
tolerated in our, as well as in every other state 
in the Union. Fur from advacutin^ the abomi- 
nable principle athibuied to tne by your cor- 
respondent, 1 think that imprisomnent for debt, 
under any circiunstance but that where fraud 
is alleged, is at war icith the best principles of 
our Constitution, andought tu be abolished. 
I am, sir, your humble servant, 

Wm. H. Haurisox. 
North Bend, Dec. 21, 1831. 



The following song was written by a vouns 
gentleman of i\ew York, and sung at a Whig 
meeting in tiiat city on Monday night : — 

OLD TIP. 

A Song to the tune of the " Old Oaken Bucket." 

Oh dear to my soul are the days of our glory, 
The time honoured days of our national pride, 
When heroes and statesmen ennobled our 

story. 
And boldly the foes of our country defied. 
When victory hung o'er our flag proudly 

waving. 
And the battle was fought by the valiant and 

true. 
For our homes and our loved ones the enemy 

braving. 
Oh then stooil the soldier of Tippecanoe. 
The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier, 
The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 

When dark was the tempest, and hovering o'er 
us. 

The clouds of destruction seemed gatherin"' 
f.ist ; 

Like a ray of bright sunshine he stood out be- 
f ire us, 

And the clouds passed away with the hurrying 
blast. 

When the Indian's loud yell, and his toma- 
hawk flushing 

Spread terror around us, and hope was vA'ith 
few. 

Oh then, through the ranks of the enemy dash- 
ing, 

Sprang fifth to the rescue old Tippecanoe. 

The iron-armed soldier, the true-ht-arted soldier. 

The g-allant old soldier of Tijipecanoe. 



When cannons were pealing and brave men 

were reeling, 
In the cold arms of death from the fire of the 

foe ; 
Where balls flew the thickest and blows fell the 

quickest. 
In the front of the battle bold Harry did go, 
The force of the enemy trembled before him. 
And soon from the field of his glory withdrew. 
And his warm-hearted comrades in triumph 

cried o'er him, 
God bless the bold soldier of Tippecanoe ! 
The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier, 
The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 

And now since the men have so long held the 
nation. 

Who trampled our rights in their scorn to the 
ground. 

We will fill their cold hearts with a new trepi- 
dation. 

And shout in their ears this most terrible sound : 

The people are coming resistless and fearless. 

To sweep from the white house the reckless old 
crew, 

For the woes of our land, since its rulers are 
tearless. 

We look for relief to oKl Tippecanoe. 

The iron-armed soldier, the true-heai ted soldier. 

The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 

The people are coming from plain and from 

mountain. 
To join the brave band of the honest and free. 
Which grows as the stream from the leaf shel- 
tered fountain, 
Spreads broad and more broad till it reaches the 

sea. 
Nostrength can restrain it, no force can retain it, 
AVhate'er may resist, it breaks gallantly through. 
And borne by its motion, as a ship on the 

ocean, 
Speeds on in his glory old Tippecanoe. 
The iron-armed soldier, the true-hearted soldier, 
The gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe. 

From among the thousand instances on re- 
cord of General Harrison's noble generosity 
and disinterestedness, we give place to the fol- 
lowing interesting recital : — 

Fri)7ii 111.' [Iiiiiiiiliiwii Drii'f'cr-it. 

THE ORPHAN WOOD CHOPPER 

About fifteen or eiahteen years ago, a fan;dy 
resided in Fayette county, ilie Uither and mo- 
ther of whom died of an epidemic then preva- 
lent, leaving three children, two sons and a 
daughter, in a forlorn and destitute situation. 
By this melanclioly event, the management and 
snpp .rt of the family cliicfly rested on the 
elder brother, then at)nut eighteen years of age. 
Brought U|) to industry by his poor and pious 
parents, he did not lor a moment despair, but 
that the Almighty, who had deprived them of 
their eartldy protector, for a purpose known 
only to Himself, would watch over them in 
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their friendless and destitute situation, and pro- I 
vide for them, with proper industry on llieir ' 
part. At lliat time, the ch<ip[)ine; of wood at 
the furnaces oliiTcd the most constant employ- 
ment, and he could have the company and as- 
sistance of his little hrothcr and sister, to whom 
he was much attached. Havinj? left the small 
log cabin which had been for many years occu- 
pied liy their parents, and which was endeared 
to then) by the recollection of many past events, 
they betook themselves, with their little all, to 
the coaliii!! ground of a neighbouring farmer, and 
became the tenants of a cheerless tenement, 
conij)ared with the one they had left. During 
the day, the elder chopped wood, and the 
younger, assisting, as far as his strength would 
permit, while the sister attended to the domes- 
tic concerns of their hut. In the evenings, and 
on days when the weather would not admit of 
out-door employment, the elder brother, who 
had received a tolerable English education iti 
the after time of his parents, taught the brother 
and sister — and his exertions were not spent in 
Tain, as the sequel will show. 

With economy and proper management, at 
the expiration of a few years, they had accu- 
mulated a small fund in money, and upon con- 
sultation they determined to invest it in a piece 
of Western land. At that time, the attention of 
emigrants was directed principally to Indiana. 
as otferiiig the greatest inducements. Thither 
then, the elder brother was to go, for the pur- 
pose of locating a home. 

Having taken an affectionate leave of those 
he most dearly loved on earth, he departed to the 
Monongahela river, where he obtained a pas- 
sage on a flat boat bound for Cincinnati, and in 
due lime arrived at that place in safety. He 
was then directed to seek the Wabash country, 
for the most fertile lands in the state. — Early 
the next morning he set out for Vincennes, 
where the princi[)al Land Ofhce for that region 
was then located. Little experienced in jour- 
neying on foot, and buoyed up with the plea- 
sing idea of getting a home for himself and 
those whom he had left some hundred miles be- 
hind ; but whose welfare and happiness, identi- 
fied with his own, kept a place in his recollec- 
tion — he pushed on at a rate too great for even 
an accomplished pedestrian to withstand. His 
ankles became swollen, and his feet much blis- 
tered. Aware of his scanty means and his 
great desire to accomplish his end, he felt un- 
willing to lose time, and continuing, aggravated 
the impediment, until he was scarce able even 
to hobble along. 

Thus situated he became depressed in spirits, 
end almost ready to sink under despondcnry. 
when he was overtaken on the road by a plain, 
farmer-looking gentleman on horseback The 
horseman, upon coming up, thus accosted him 
in a benevolent and kind manner. " Young 
man. you appear lame, and not well calculated 
to make much progress on a journey." To 
which the young man replied, informing him 
of tho cause of his lameness — that lie was 



bound for the land office at Vincennes, for the 
purpose of entering a piece of land as a home 
for himself and a younger brother and sister, 
whom he had left orphans in Fayette county, 
Pennsylvania, but that he almost despaired 
of reaching it in his present cripjiled situation. 
The gentleman on horseback ()uickly replied — 
" We have the same destination, I am also 
bound for Vincennes — it is yet twenty miles — 
here mount my horse and ride him hither. I 
am much more able to walk than you, in your 
disabled situation." The young man after ur- 
gent solicitation, placed himself in the saddle, 
and the plain gentleman took it afoot the rest 
of the distance to Vincennes, where they ar- 
rived about nightfall. 

In the morning, the stranger again accosted 
the young man, — " You told me yesterday on 
our journey, that your object was to enter a 
piece of land. I have some knowledge of this 
country, its location and advantages — if you 
will accept my aid, I will go with you to the 
land office and select a piece for you. It will 
save you a good deal of trouble and some ex- 
pense." The offer was cheerfully accepted, 
and they proceeded to the office and made the 
entry. But imagine the chagrin and disap- 
pointment of the young man, when he came to 
pay the money to the receiver, to learn tho 
amount was deficient five dollars, owing to a 
counterfeit to that amount. " A friend in need 
is a friend indeed." The stranger perceiving 
the dilemma of the young man, immediately 
said — " Be of good cheer — you informed me 
that you are an orphan — that you have come 
several hundred miles in search of a home for 
yourself and brother and sister. You shall not 
be disappointed — it gives me pleasure to assist 
the orphan and destitute. Here are ten dollars 
which will enable you to clear out your land 
and pay your way, until you can obtain em- 
ployment, and as I have many acquaintances 
here, I shall seek out a place for you." He did 
so, and obtained one — and the young man con- 
tinued in it, until he had accumulated some 
money, which he remitted to his brother and 
sister, atid enabled them to join him. The 
piece of land proved to be a valuable one — now 
finely improved and occupied by the elder 
brother and his family — respected and esteem- 
ed by their neighbours. The sister was happily 
married, and is enjoying the comforts of life, 
on a farm in the same neighbourhood. The 
younger brother, possessing the confidence of 
his fellow-citizens, has been elected and is now 
performing the duties of a highly responsible 
office. 

Reader ! who was that stranger, that good 
man, that plain republican, who so disintercst- 
edli/ stept forward, and in the hour of need as- 
sisted these orphans, and enabled them to fix 
themselves comfortably in life 1 Does not your 
bosom swell with gratitude for so noble a 
deed 1 

My friends, that stranger, that good plain re- 
publican, was GENERAL HA RRISON, He 



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who had been Governor of a State, the com- 
mander of armies, had fousrht many battles in 
his country's cause, and never lost one, did not 
acquire the superciHous demeanour, which those 
in power too fre(iuently do. He is still the 
plain republican, ever ready to assist the poor 
and needy with his purse and his counsel. 

Keader — the above is not fiction. There are 
those yet residnig in Fayette county who re- 
member these orphan children, and siiould you 
ever meet with thcin, they will relate to you, 
from overflowing and grateful hearts, this wor- 
thy deed of the good General HARRISON. 

This is the man whom tlie " people" are 
about to call to preside over the destinies of this 
great Republic. Is he not worthy of it? 

ORPHAN. 

HARRISON SONG. 

Tune — Gaily the Troubadour, 
Gaily did Harrison 

Come from his home, 
Whilst he was yet in youth, 

Not twenty-one ; 
He joined our gallant band 

On our frontiers, . 

Harrison — Harrison — 

Give him three cheers. 

Hark, all ye gallant Whigs, 

Firm, brave, and true. 
After he'd joined the band 

What did he do I 
He led to victory. 

Free from all fears, 
Harrison — Harrison — 

Give him three cheers. 

Huzza for Harrison, 

Success to him. 
He makes the Vanocrats 

Look rather slim ; 
He is the peo[)le's man, 

Away witli our fears, 
Harrison — Harrison — 

Give him three cheers. 

Then let us stick to him, 

Young, old, and all, 
And. like old I'roctor's men. 

Malty must fill ; 
Turn then, ye Vanocrats, 

Fear not their sneers, 
Harrison — Harrison — 

Give him three cheers. 

GENERAL HARRISON'S CHARACTER 
Df feuded by a Loco- Foco Journal. 
The following manly rebuke addressed to the 
traducers of General Harrison, is from the Ohio 
Confederule. a Van Bureii journal. We com- 
mend it to the notice of the Argus, the Post, 
and the New Era. If any one of these jour- 
nals will give an insertion to this tribute of 



respect to the time and war-worn patriot, we 
promise to publish an article of equal length — 
nay, we will not stand on trifles of twice the 
length — contrasting the claims of Mr. Van 
Buren, with those here conceded by one of the 
alilest loco-foco journals in the west, to the 
democratic candidate for the presidency, Wm. 
Henry Harrison. What say you, Messrs. Ar- 
gus, Post, and Era ? Dare you publish ? 

GENERAL HAIIRISOX. 

" A superannuated and pitiable dotard." — 0. 8. 

BulL 
"As the petticoat general passed through 

town," &c. — Dem. Spark. 

If we did not entertain the highest respect 
for the papers from which we have made the 
foregoing quotations, we would avoid the liabi- 
lities to which we know we are exposing our- 
selves when we take exception to these expres- 
sions. But it is precisely because we esteem 
them influential and worthy journals, that we 
are not at lil)erly to forbear the objections which 
we have against them, or of the imputation of 
a fault-finding disposition. 

Can it be, brethren, that the cause which 
you espouse, the principles you advocate, or the 
success even of the man whom you prefer, can 
only be secured by the use of such means as 
this ] Are the truth, and the beauty, and the 
power of republicanism to be established by 
detractory aspersions of individual character! 
Are Mr. Van Buren's claims to the respect and 
confidence of the people, and his title to the 
highest honour of the public service, only to 
be maintained, or in any degree assisted, by 
contumelious treatment of his rivals in popular 
favour ? Surely there is error in this thing. 
Divest yourselves, if but for a moment, of the 
excitement, (we had almost said of the phrenzy,) 
which you allow your party attachments and 
animosities to engender — assume the cool and 
generous frame of mind whicli so well befits 
the free and erdightcned citizen, (and such you 
are,) and calmly answer tiie iiujuiry — " Who is 
he whom we are describing as the pcttiamt {ge- 
neral, the superannuated (ind pitiable duturd?" 
Yourselves will answer — and that not of com- 
pulsion — political aspirations out of view, your- 
selves will answer most frankly — he is a tried 
and a worthy citizen ; ay, "seven times is he" — 
in the ordeals of fire and water. While yet a 
stripling, you will say, he gave himself to the 
arduous service of his country ; he exchanged 
the joys and the safely of a family at home, for 
the perils and hardships of a dreary wildernes.s 
and a savage enemy. For forty years thence 
forward, did he devote himself to his country ; 
in peace and in war, in danger and in security, 
in the camp and in the cluset, in the senate 
and in tlie battle field, did he serve that country 
in true feally and untarnished honour; until, 
even now, grown griiv in that hard .service which 
has brought him iiotliing l)ut a glorious reputa- 
tion and a Conscience void of oilince against 
the obligation of patriotism, he stands, in his 



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old are, amoTic; the millions who surround him, 
a model of oflicial purity and uncorrujited inte- 
grity. And this is the toil-worn soldier and 
honoured citizen, who is described as " a super- 
annuated and a pitiable dotard," and a '■^petti- 
coat general." ! ! 

Brethren, if we believe another to be the 
better statesman, let us say so. If we think the 
aged patriot entertains opinions and sentiments 
adverse to the important interests of our coun- 
try, let us canvass unreservedly those sentiments 
and opinions. But in the name of humanity 
and gratitude, let us not taunt the war-worn 
veteran with the decreptitude of years, which 
come to all of human kind, nor touch with 
rude, unfeeling hand, his hard-earned garlands, 
won on many a bloody field, where brave men 
fought! Gentlemen, there is a vast difference 
between the goose quill and the death-dealing 
Bword — a mighty contrast between the suffer- 
ings and the dangers of a tented field, and 
the soft and easy life of a critic who despises it. 

When, under the impulse of political acer- 
bity, one feels prone to disparage the just claims 
of General Harrison to the consideration of the 
people, there are two circumstances, the recol- 
lection of which ought, it would seem, to arrest 
the incipient purpose. It should be remembered, 
in the first place, that three years have just gone 
by, when a majority of the citizens of Ohio 
would have raised him to the loftiest post of 
responsibility and honour — and that such an 
expression of popular opinion is entitled to some 
weight, in estimating individual character. And 
in the second place, let it not be forgotten, (by 
future generations it will not be,) that from the 
service of the state, continuing through all the 
active years of a lengthened life, he retires in 
jioi^erty. When the fact becomes so common 
as no longer to be remarkable, let his country- 
men cease to hold it as a token of Harrison's 
worth ; but while as yet it remains the solitary 
instance, save one, in which the love of money 
has been totally lost in the noble love of coun- 
try and honour, let it be acknowledged the 
proudest monument of his greatness and the 
best memorial of his virtue. 

Additional and satisfactory evidence of Gene- 
ral Harrison's genuine and undeviating reputi- 
licanism. 

An old letter from General Harrison, which 
proves him to be of the old republican .school. 

Dr. Joseph Brownley, formerly of Harford 
county, Maryland, now a citizen of Richmond, 
has placed in our hands a letter from General 
Harrison to him, dated Ilth November, 1809, 
twenty-one yearsago. It is interesting in many 
particulars, and especially so, as giving an in- 
stance how easy it had been for General Har- 
rison, then governor of the northwestern terri- 
tory, to have ac(]uired a fortune without expense 
or hazard, had he been ciipable (f cheafimr the 
government. (Speculating, others in his place 
might have called it.) We heard a citizen say 



the other day, (a man who knows the world 
and public affairs well) that he had no particu- 
lar leaning to Harrison, but he should vote for 
him because millions of public moncv having 
passed through his hands, none had shick. 
Had he plundered the public, and in his treaties 
with the Indians accepted presents of fine lands, 
and procured immense reservations for himself, 
he would not now be sneered at by the office- 
holders as the " log cabin" and " hard cider" 
candidate, or his honest po\'erty be derided by 
propositions to send him old clothes. 

But to return to the letter. In the year 1809, 
the old republican and federal parties existed in 
full force, and party feeling ran high, the war 
with England approaching, and the restrictive 
policy of Mr. Jefferson giving rise to much 
heat. The contest in Maryland was close, but 
the Republicans, in the fall of that year, carried 
the state. Upon this, General Harrison says 
to Dr. Brownley : — 

" / rejoice sincerely in the triumph of the 
Repuhlicrms of Maryland. I have ivritten to 
my friend General Smith (Gen. Saml. Smith) 
to congratulate him on his appointment to the 
senate, tuithout having any other evidence of it 
than the success of the Republican ticket." 

A word to Mr. Goode on this extract : Would 
a black-cockade Federalist have rejoiced in 1809, 
at the success of the Republican party in Ma- 
ryland ] Would he have written from Vin- 
cennes to Baltimore to congratulate General 
Smith, the champion of the Republican partv, 
and the friend of Jefferson and Madison, if he 
had been a black-cockade Federalist ? W^e tliink 
all Virginia will shout. No! We think Mr 
Goode himself must be satisfied that the charge 
is unfounded, and that in making it, John Ran- 
dolph yielded to the s[)leen whicli but too often 
mastered his judgment and eradicated his sense 
of justice. Certain it is, the charge itself was 
most unfounded, and in direct conflict with the 
facts. The venerable Judge Burnett proves 
that Harrison was a warm supporter of Mr. 
Jefferson against the elder AiT.tms. All know 
that Presidents Jefferson and Madison appointed 
him to high and confidential office. In the war 
of 1812, declared by the Republican party, 
Harrison was in arms from first to last. This 
letter, now before us, furnishes the most un- 
suspicious and conclusive evidence of the same 
tenor. Let the charge, then, be magnanimously 
abandoned. — Richmond Whig. 

[Dr. Brownley, referred to above, is well 
known in this state, and was formerly a mem- 
ber of the Maryland senate.] 

THE HARD CIDER AND LOG CABIN 
CANDIDATE. 

The leading paper of the oiilce-holders' party 
puts forth a stalcmeiit, of the probable vote on 
the presidential question, in which it generously 
allows the North Bend Farmer eighteen votes! 
'I'his shows a derided increase in the liberal 
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previous to the last election, that the old hero 
would not receive the vote of a single state in 
the Union — yet when the battle v^'as over, it 
appeared that four thousand more votes in 1 
Pennsylvania would have defeated Mr. Van 
Buren before the peo[)le. But now that the 
contest must be decided by the people without 
recourse to Congress, when there is an open 
field and a fair race, man to man, it does not 
require the spirit of prophecy to foresee that 
the " log cabin" working man, whether refresh- 
ed by cold water or " hard cider," will run far 
ahead of the champagne and cologne candidate, 
aided by his English chariot and English blood 
horses. 

The office-holders think the Old Farmer will 
be content with his "log cabin" and "hard 
cider." Very likely — for he has often had much 
harder fare — many a time has he dined on 
rAKCHF.i) conx, without even "hard cider" 
to moisten it, and without even a " log cabin" 
to protect him, or a bed to rest on. But, after 
dining on parched corn and with a stump for a 
tattle, he has produced better letters than ever 
came from the pen of the present occupant of 
the White House. 

It seems, however, that the peoplk think the 
old wonKiNc MAN has been in the "log cabin" 
and drank "hard cider" long enough ; and they 
have resolved that the "poor man's friend" 
shall be placed in a situation where he will be 
of more use to poor men, and where he can 
contribute to heal the bleeding wounds of his 
country. 

In a word, the people have willed that Wil- 
liam Henry Harrison shall be the next 
president of the United States. And all the 
efforts of the oflice-holders to suppress the voice 
of the people will be in vain. 

Anthony Wayne. 



NATIONAL WHIG SONG. 

Sung by Mr. liussell, at his concert in Boston, 

on the Ibth inst. 
I'll sing you now a new Whig song, made to a 

good old rhyme, 
Of a fine true-hearted gentleman, all of the 

olden time ; 
By birth and blood, by kith and kin, a sound 

true Whig was he. 
For his father signed the charter that made our 
country free. 
Like a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

In youth, upon the tented field, his laurels he 

did gain, 
Ko chief so many battles fought, that never 

fought in vain ; 
In peace, the quiet statesman he; but when 

grim war arose. 
He buckled on his armour then, to meet his 
country's foes. 
Like a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 
6 



And when he'd served his country well, in 

senate and in field, 
The honours that awaited him most freely did 

he yield ; 
He turned him to his home again, and sought 

a f.irnier's toils. 
For though hvWJilkd the offices, he never look 

the spoils. 
Like aline true-hearled gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

And when the people, in their might, have put 
their solemn ban 

Upon the arch Magician and on all his tory 
clan, 

To manage well their state affairs, with one ac- 
cord they'll send 

For another (Jincinnatus — the Fanner of North 
Bend. 
For he's a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

When in the youthful warrior's hand his coun- 
try placed the sword, 

He conquered all her enemies, that threatened 
from abroad ; 

And now, when with domestic foes her highest 
places teem. 

The land the gallant Soldier saved, the 
Statkb^iax must redeem. 
Like a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 

Let every sound, true-hearted Whig now raise 
his voice on high. 

And, for the triumph of the cause, join Free- 
dom's loudest cry ; 

Come to the fight ; we'll win the field — away 
with doubts and fears ; 

The people's man is HARRISON — let's give 
him three good cheers. 
For he's a fine true-hearted gentleman, 
All of the olden time. 



If our loco-foco friends vvill not believe the 
following testimony of John M. Niles, the late 
Van Buren candidate for governor of Connec- 
ticut, but most deplorably distanced in the race, 
and of Isaac Hill, the great gun of loco-foco 
Van Burenism in New Hampshire, they would 
not believe, " though one rose from the dead." 

VERITABLE WITNESSES! 

It is not a little singular that .some of the very 
best endorsements of General Harrison, yet 
published, have proceeded from Colonel R. M. 
Johnson, Thomas Ritchie, John M. Niles, and 
Isaac Hill ! 

The high and just encomiums which the first 
two honestly paid General Harrison, have been 
given to our readers. All these testimonials 
are the more valuable because they were given 
in a spirit of justice and patriotism, when the 
eyes of their authors were not blinded by party 
prejudice, and their hearts not embittered by 
party spirit. How futile and ridiculous do thej 
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make all these attacks and slanders with which 
a mercenary press now pursues the patriot 
soldier, merely because the people have selected 
him as their candidate for the presidency. 

It is scarcely necessary to say that Isaac Hill 
was recently the governor of New Hampshire, 
and has long been the leading oracle of Mr. 
Van Buren's administration in that state. 

We tlnd in the New Hampshire Patriot of 
July 20, IS 1.3, of which Isaac Hill was at that 
time the editor, the following, which .shows 
where Mr. Allen of the senate obtained his 
hint for that infamous slander upon General 
Harrison, with which the loco-foco press is 
now rife : — 

" At a council with the chiefs of the Dela- 
ware, Shawanee, Wyandott, and Seneca tribes 
of Indians, at Franklinton, some of whom had 
manifested symptoms of hostility, General Har- 
rison in a speech alluded to the agreement 
made by Proctor to deliver him up to the In- 
dians to be murdered, in case Fort Meigs was 
taken ; and promised in case he, Harrison, was 
successful, that he would deliver Proctor into 
their hands — on condition that they should do 
him no other harm than to put a pelticoat on 
him — ' for,' said he, ' none but a coward or a 
squaw would kill a prisoner.' " 

In the Patriot of November 23, in the same 
year, we find the following high eulogy upon 
General Harrison : — 

" What man lives, whose whole heart and 
soul is not British, that cannot sincerely rejoice 
in the late victories of Perry and Harrison, that 
does not feel a pride in the valour and patriotism 
of the heroes of the West, who have freed a 
country large as the empire of Alexander the 
Great, from the Indian tomahawk and scalping 
knife ! If there be such a one, he is a traitor 
to his country — he possesses the spirit of a 
murderer." 

In the Patriot of January 7, 1812, we find 
the following paragraph touching the letter of 
General Harrison to Congress, after the glorious 
battle of Tippecanoe: — 

"To every American who feels for his coun- 
try, the perusal of that letter will produce pride 
and jjleasure." 

But Mr. NileF,*of Connecticut, the late well 
known United States senator, and at this pre- 
sent moment the Van Buren candidate for 
governor of that commonwealth, has " writlen 
a bodk''' which comprises a condensed biogra- 
phy of the people's candidate for the presidency ! 
"O that mine enemy had written a book !" and 
here we have it. Truly, considering the rela- 
tive position of the parties?, it is a rare curiosity, 
worthy the attention of the politico-literary 
D'lsraelis of the day. We conuncnd it f>r the 
especial perusal of the editor of the Globe, who 
holds Mr. Niles in the highest consideration ; 
for he has told us that Mr. Niles "speaks as 
Dr. Franklin wrote." 

The book to which we refer bears the fol- 
lowing title: 

"The Life of Oliver Hazard Perry, with an 
* Being rejected by tbe ptopU, ha ii 



Appendix, comprising a Biojraphical Memoir 
of the late Captain James Laicreiice ,- with 
brief sketches of the most prominent events in 
the Lives of Commodores Bniiibridge, Deca- 
tur, Porter, and Macd'inou<rh. A view of the 
rise, present condition, and future prospects of 
the Navy of the United States — a list of the 
Officers of the Navy, and vessels of War of 
the United States. — To which is added, a Bio- 
graphy of General Pilce, and a view of the 
leading events in the life of GENEIRAL HAR- 
RISON— 63/ John M. Niles, E^q. Second edi- 
tion, enlarged and improved. Hartford : pub- 
lished by Oliver D. Cooke, 1821." 

The " view of the leading events in the life 
of General Harrison," is in the following style 
and language : — 

"Major-General William Henry Harrison 
was born in Virginia, at a place called Berkley, 
on the James river, twenty miles below Rich- 
mond, and his descent is from one'of the oldest 
and most respectable fimilies of that state. He 
was destined by his father to the study and 
practice of physic. Accordingly, after receiv- 
ing a suitable school education, he commenced 
the study with Dr. Leiper, of Richmond, and 
was on his way to Philadelphia, with a view to 
finish his studies, when he heard of his father's 
death. It was a profession not congenial with 
l*s views, and he therefore, at that juncture, 
abandoned it, and took a commission in the 
United States army. 

" After spending a few weeks in the recruiting 
service at Philadelphia, he proceeded to the 
northwestern territory, and joined his regiment 
at Fort Washington, a few days after St. Clair's 
defeat. He was then but nineteen years of 
age; a stripling, to appearance wretchedly qua- 
lified to endure the fatigue of a campaign in 
the wilderness. 

" His first enterprise was with a detachment 
of twenty men, ordered to escort some pack- 
horses to Fort Hamilton. It was attended with 
great dangers and privations, but was executed 
so satisfactorily as to draw from General St. 
Clair the warmest public thanks. 

"Soon after, General St. Clair returned to 
Philadelphia, and Wilkinson took command in 
his place. The year following (1792) was 
occupied in raising and disciiilining a newr 
army, which descended the Ohio and encamped 
near Cincinnati, in June, 1793, under com- 
mand of General Wayne. Here Harrison 
joined them, and was appointed second aid-de- 
camp to the commander-in-chief and from that 
place they marched to Greenville and took up 
winter-quarters. In June, 1791, they took up 
a line of march against the Indians, and on the 
20th of August, came into an engagement with 
them at the foot of the Miami Rapids, and soon 
routed them. Here Harrison acted a conspi- 
cuous part, and acquitted himself with honour. 
This battle had the desired effect; the Indians 
sued for peace, and a treaty was elTected the 
year following. 

" In 179.5 he was commissioned captain, and 
now appointed I'ostiiiastcr-geiieral. 



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in the autumn of tlio same year, married a 
daughter of John Cleeves Symmcs, Esq., a 
judge of the northwestern territory. General 
Wayne having retired to the Atlantic states, 
left him in command of Fort Washington, 
where he continued until 1*97, and, as the 
country was at peace, retired from the army, 
and was soon afterwards appointed Secretary 
of the northwesterti territory. 

''In the year 1799, he was sent delegate to 
Congress from that territory, and at the forma- 
tion of the Indiana territory, was appointed first 
governor of it, to the capital of which (Vin- 
ceiines) he removed with his family, in 1801. 

"The civil administration of General Harri- 
son, although not marked with such hrilliant 
circumstauces as his military operations, was, 
notwithstanding, managed with equal judg- 
ment. 

" At the celehratcd hattle of Tippecanoe, in 
1811, General Harrison, as governor, was, at 
the head of the troops and directed the action, 
which terminated in completely routing the 
Indians, and of destroying a treacherous and 
formidable conspiracy against the territory. 

"The war with Great Britain gave him an- 
other opportunity of disjjlayitig his military 
character. At the capture of General Hull 
and his army, and the surrender of the Michi- 
gan territory, in 1813, General Harrison was 
called to the command of the northwestern 
army, and ordered to collect what forces he 
could, and if possible to advance to Detroit 
and reduce Maiden during that fall. Accord- 
ingly he hastened to the frontier, and after 
surmounting the greatest difliculties, arrived at 
the foot of the Miami Rapids. A premature 
movement had, however, been made by General 
Winchester, and which ended in the defeat and 
capture of himself and army. In consequence, 
all hopes of effecting the objects of the cam- 
paign, during that season, were at an end. He 
therefore took up winter quarters on the Miami, 
at Fort Meigs, where he was attacked in the 
spring by the British army, under General 
Proctor, with a force vastly superior. The 
British general opened his batteries and con- 
tinued firing from the 1st to the 5th of August, 
and finding it impossible to carry on the siege 
to effect, made a precipitate retreat, on the 9th. 
General Harrison's army being augmented to 
about three thousand five hundred, he prepared 
to follow the enemy, and passing Maiden and 
Detroit, which they had abandoned, crossed the 
Thames at Arnold's Mills, and soon after came 
into engagement. His backwood's horsemen 
were drawn up, and charged the enemy's line 
at full speed. This had the desired effect ; 
their ranks were immediately broken, and the 
army surrendered to General Harrison, General 
Proctor having made his escape with a few 
dragoons and mounted Indians. 

" The defence of Fort Meigs, and the subse- 
quent capture of the British army, may be fairly 
considered the most brilliant and extraordinary 
events of the late war. 



"These were his last militury achievements. 
A treaty of peace was concluded with Great 
Britain, and his services being no longer wanted, 
he retired, with ' blushing honours thick upon 
him,' to the bosom of his friends, and to the 
enjoyment of domestic happiness." 

In the body of the work, Mr. Ndes alludes 
to the successful battle of the Thames, and 
eulogises the gallant conduct of General Har- 
rison and his troops in the following terms : — 

" It is admitted that the American forces 
considerably exceeded those of the enemy ; but 
when it is considered that the latter had chosen 
their own position — that they had taken one 
peculiarly favourable for defence, eilectually 
securing their flanks, it being impossible to turn 
them, and that the Americans could present a 
line no more extended than that of the enemy, 
v^'hich was too limited to admit of the active 
employment of all their troops, and when it is 
further considered, that the troops were almost 
entirely militia, it must be conceded that this 
victor 1^ rejledfd greiit honour upon the national 
arma, and upon the troops bi/ whom it was 
achieved. 

"The action and the movements which pre- 
ceded it, afford am[)Ie testimony of the judg- 
ment, and cool intrepidity of General Harrison; 
and, indeed, all the events of the campaign 
support these characteristics : the disasters at- 
tending it, having in no instance been imputu- 
ble to him. 

" There are, perhaps, on record few instances 
of such cool and steady intrepidity on the part 
of militia, or a force of this description, as was 
displayed on this occasion. 

" The victory of the Thames was not more 
honourable in its character, than important in 
its consequences. It terminated the war on the 
northwestern frontier; which during fifteen 
months had been drenched in blood and stained 
with crimes ; thousands of the most patriotic 
sons of the west, having fallen victims to its 
ravages and disasters. The savage war-yell was 
heard no more — and the frightful tomahawk no 
longer reeked with the blood of innocence, in- 
fancy, and age. 

"Harrison and Perry left Detroit in the Ariel, 
and arrived at Erie on the 2'2d of October. 
Here they were received with every demonstra- 
tion of joy and admiration, the discharge of 
cannon, illuminations, &c. They were hailed 
as the deliverers of the frontiers." 

For the purpose of recommending the work 
to the public confidence, and of gaining for it 
the character of being a valuable and enduring 
contribution to the common stock of American 
history, Mr. Niles remarks in the preface : — 

" The facts and materials which the work 
comprises, have been derived from authentic 
sources, and whatever may be thought of it in 
other respects, it is humbly believed, that so far 
as industry in research, and care in compilation, 
can insure historic correctness and accuracy of 
detail, it possesses these essential character- 
istics." 



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Frnm the naltimnve Patriot. 

JOHN C. CALHOUN MY JO. 

A COMIC rOLITICAL SONO. 

Tune — "Jvltn Anderson my Jo." 

John C, Calhoun my Jo John, I'm sorry for 
your fate, 

You've nullified the tariff laws, you've nulHfied 
your state ; 

You've nullified your party, John, and prin- 
ciples, you know. 

And now you've nullified yourself, John C. Cal- 
houn my Jo. 

! John, how could you look into the face of 

Henry Clay 1 
The glory of the Western World and of the 

world away ; 
You call'd yourself his "master," John, but that 

can ne'er be so. 
For he " would not own you for a slave," John 

C. ('alhoun my Jo. 

The Father of the Tariff, John, and Patron of 
the Arts, 

He seeks to build his country up in spite of fo- 
reign parts ; 

And Harrison will soon upset the little Van «fc 
Co. 

And renovate the Ship of State, John C. Cal- 
houn my Jo. 

John C. Calhoun my Jo John, ambition in de- 
spair 

Once made you nullify the whole, the half oi it 
to share ; 

The " whole hog now you've gone," John, with 
Kendall, Blair & Co. 

But "you've got the wrong sow by the ear," 
John 0. Calhoun my Jo. 

American mechanics, John, will never sell their 

votes 
For Mint Drops or for Treasury Bills, or even 

British coats; 
They want no English coaches, John, white 

servants thoy forei^o. 
For their carriage is of Yankee stamp, John C. 

Calhoun my Jo. 

0! John, he is a slifipcry blade with whom 

you've got to deal. 
He'll pass between your clutches too, just like 

a living eel ; 
You think he'll rccnininend you, John, but Van 

will ne'er do so. 
For he wants the fishes for himself, John C. 

Calhoun my Jo. 

John C. Calhoun my Jo John, if this you dare 
to doubt. 

Go ask the Living Skeleton who deals his se- 
crets out, 

His favourites are mark'd, John, the mark you 
cannot toe. 

And you'll soon repent the bargain made, John 
C. Calhoun my Jo. 



This is a dirty business, John, go wash 3'our 

little hands. 
And never bow your knee again to cunning 

Van's commands; 
" How you are olf for soap," John, I cannot 

say I know. 
But "your mother does not know you're out," 

John C. Calhoun my Jo. 

The brave sons of the South, John, will never 

own you more. 
And Benton's Mint Drops will not save — you're 

rotten to the core ; 
The People will no power, John, on such as 

you bestow. 
And you've jump'd your final somerset, John 

C. Calhoun my Jo, 

John C. Calhoun my Jo John, you'll ride with 
little Van, 

From yonder Whiled Sepulchre, with all its 
motley clan ; 

The journey will be long, John, now mind I 
tell you so. 

For they never can return again, John C. Cal- 
houn my Jo. 

Then better men, my Jo John, our sad affairs 
will fix, 

Kepublicans in principle, the Whigs of Seven- 
ty-six ; 

The offices they'll purge, John, Swartwouters 
all will go. 

And sycophantic fellows too, John C. Calhoun 
my Jo. 

The Farmer of North Bend, John, will plough 
the weeds away. 

And the terror of Tecumseh then will gain an- 
other day, 

America will flourish, John, mechanics find 
employ. 

And our merchants will rejoice indeed, John 
C. Calhoun my Jo. 

John Vj. Calhoun my Jo John, when one term 

shall ex|)ire. 
He'll drop the reigns of power and with dignity 

retire. 
To look upon a smiling land, that he has ron- 

der'd so, 
.\nd every Whig will cry AMEN ! John C. 

Calhoun my Jo. Milfoiu) Baku. 

Poet's Garret, Bultimore, Jamtari/ 1840. 



Most loved by those who know him best : — 

GENERAL HARRISON AT HOME. 

General Rufus Hodges, in the Providence 
(R. I.) Journal of the 1 7th of January, gives 
the follownig interesting account of the next 
Republican President of the United States. 
Cincinnati, Dec. 23, 1839. 

Deau Sir, — I have received your favour of 
the 12th instant, in which you allude to the 



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nomination of General Harrison as the candi- 
Jate for tlie Presidency, and ask me to give you 
some statements, in regard to the daily avoca- 
tions and domestic habits of tliat distinguished 
man. I comply with your request with great 
pleasure. Having resided near him for about 
twelve years, and for a greater part of that 
period having been on terms of intimate ac- 
quaintance with him, I think I may speak with 
confidence on the points to which you refer. 

I will [iremise by stating my full belief, that 
General Harrison in his character, tastes, and 
habits, combines more of the elements of the 
true Democratic Kepublicati, than any person 
who has been a candidate for that office since 
the establishment of the government. 

His residence is in tire southwest corner of 
the state of Ohio, at the junction of the Big 
Miami and Ohio rivers, quite remote and seclu- 
ded from the bustle of the political world. 
There he has constantly resided since he closed 
his service as Major-general in the American 
army of the last war, excepting the periods 
when he was absent as Senator and Represen- 
tative in Congress, from Ohio, and on a foreign 
mission. He resides upon his farm, which is 
handsome and well cultivated. This he culti- 
vates himself, and from which he draws the 
subsistence of himself and flimily. He em- 
ploys from two to four hands in the cultivation 
of his land, and with these workmen he may be 
generally found, from sunrise in the morning, 
to the close of the labours of the day in the 
evening. He is among the most industrious 
and active of men. Within the last six months, 
f heard him declare he did not recollect that 
'^ his head had been ftiund upon his piUoiv at 
sitnrhe fur (he hift forty i/ears." For industry, 
plain, unalVected simplicity of life, and a hearty 
devotion to the pursuits of agriculture, you 
may find many among the respectable farmers 
of Rhode Island not unlike him. 

His dwelling corresponds with the severe 
simplicity of the man in other respects. It is a 
common two story building, very plain in its 
structure and furniture, and sulKcicntly ample 
only, to accominodiite his family and friends 
who visit him. But, though his accommoda- 
tions areso plain, he is among the most hospita- 
ble of men, always happy to see and welcome 
his friends, and I believe his house is seldom 
found without company. He spreads before his 
guests a plentiful board, but it is the table of a 
respectable Oliio farmer, almost wholly suppli- 
.>d from his own farm. 

His dress and general dei)ortment are in per- 
fect keeping with his character in other respects. 
Ft is said that " the dress oft bespeaks the man." 
U by this be meant, that fine and rich clothing 
proclaims the great man, surely by this rule. Gen. 
Harrison has no claims to greatness. But, 
judging from his dress, you would s ly, " the 
man so clad is not afraid to handle the plough, 
the spade, or any otiier implement of husband- 
ry." Nothing can exceed his uniform aifiibility. 
A soldier-like ease and opeiniess of manner 



characterize his intercourse with all, and he has 
the happy talent of placing all who approach 
him, at entire ease — a circumstance which ren- 
ders him peculiarly popular with the labouring 
classes. 

The open-handed liberality and benevolence 
of Harrison, are proverbial, wherever he is 
knov\'n. Ho is ever the poor man's friend ; and 
his amiable disposition, to bi'nefit and befriend 
others, has often been indulged, it is believed, to 
his own detriment. And in all the relations of 
life, he has ever been found the very impersona- 
tion of honour and integrity. No man living 
has more indissolubly attached to his name, 
than he, the application of " THE HONEST 
MAN." 

General Harrison enjoys fine health, which 
has been his happy fortune through life. He 
is thin in person, walks erect, and moves brisk- 
ly ; and has less of the indication of age, than 
is usual in persons of his years. He retains 
his hair, which is a little silvered ; but he has a 
stilfness in his limbs, said to have been caused 
by exposure to the severities of wiiitcr, on our 
northwestern frontier, during the last war. 
He has as fine an eye as you ever beheld. It 
is what physiognomists, I suppose, would pro- 
nounce the eye of genius — bright, quick, and 
piercing. 



(From a volume published by a French Tourist 
in 16-25.) 

GENERAL HARRISON. 

" Are you personally acquainted, sir, vi'ith 
General Harrison 1" 

" Begar, sare, I have the grand satisfactiong, 
to have the plaisare, sare, to have the grand in- 
troductiong, sare, to the brave hero and citizen. 
I make you introductiong, sare, to dis gentle- 
homme, who vill tell you de grand story of de 
old Shenerall and de wood leg soldiare. Aid 
foi ! it is ver good." 

" With great pleasure, sir, I will relate it," 
said a very respectable looking gentleman in 
black, who I afterwards understood was a cler- 
gyman. " It was in the year IS'^O, if my me- 
mory is correct, that I was travelling in Ohio, 
with the view of purchasing a tract of land for 
my son, when I fell in with a gentleman who 
was a stranger, and whom I found a very intel- 
ligent and agreeable coinjianion. A thunder 
storm drove us into a neat log cabin, a little dis- 
tance from the road side, for shelter, where we 
found a house full of children, a sick and very 
interesting looking woman lying on a humble 
but clean looking bed, and a young, pretty mai- 
den sitting near. The husband and father, with 
a wooden leg and a deep scar across his browr, 
was bending over the bed and pressing the 
hand of the sick woman between both of his. 
His eyes were intently llxed on a yonng infant, 
apparently a few montlis old. The whole 
group ha<i been indulging in tears, and I saw 
one stealing from the dark and dazzling eyes of 



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the young damsel, as she sat listening appa- 
rently to some tale of woe which her father 
told. Their tears were suddenly wiped away 
as we approached, and we were given a cordial 
welcome. 

" ' You seem to be in distress,' said the stran- 
ger, my companion. 

" ' I have faced the enemies of my country,' 
said the host, as he swung his wooden leg 
round to close the door, ' and I have felt all the 
pangs and privations of a military life ; but all 
this was nothing compared with what I have 
suffered to-day.' 

" Strun<rer. Pardon me if I ask the cause ; 
for I will relieve you, if it lies in my power. 

" Host. My wife is afflicted with an inter- 
nal disease which renders it dangerous to move 
her ; yet for a debt which I cannot immediately 
raise, the man who is agent for another de- 
clares that if I do not pay it before to-morrow 
at twelve o'clock, he will seize what little I pos- 
sess, and turn us all out to the mercy of the 
elements. I can neither raise the sum by that 
time, nor obtain a shelter for my poor wife and 
children, who must perish to gratify the ma- 
lice of a man whose heart is a stranger to 
mercy. 

" The whole family melted into tears as he 
concluded, and even the soldier himself, who 
had faced the cannon's mouth, could not refrain 
from weeping. 

" stranger. You have fought the battles of 



the country 1 May I be inquisitive in ask- 
ing— 

" Host, Oh ! yes, I fought under the brave 
Harrison at the glorious battle of Tippecanoe, 
and in other battles. I speak of him with 
pride, for I have seen his sword glittering in 
the thickest of the fight. 

" Stranger. Would you know him were 
you to see him 1 

" Host. (Gazing in his face.) You resemble 
him very much. Were he to know my sulJer- 
ings, he would instantly assist me. I have seen 
him do many generous deeds. 

" Stranger. Where did you lose your leg 1 

" Host. It was shattered by a ball at the 
victory of the Thames. 

" Stranger. Well, my brave fellow, make 
your mind easy ; a hair of your head shall not 
be injured. You now see your General before 
you, and as you have fought for me and your 
country, I will now protect you and your 
family at the risk of my life. 

" A sudden blaze of joy seemed to run from 
heart to heart ; the soldier clasped General 
Harrison in his arms, while the children press- 
ed his hand with affection. ' We shall be 
saved from ruin,' cried the pale wife. 

" The General found the owner of the land 
on which the soldier lived, and never rested 
until he made the poor fellow a right to it. He 
also discharged the debt, and a happier family 
I never beheld." 



THE LOG CABIN AND HARD CIDER CANDIDATE. 

General Harrison, when parting from a regiment of his soldiers, just after the Indian war, 
said to them : — " Gentlemen, if you ever come to Vincennes, you will always find a plate and a 
knife and fork at my table ; and I assure you that you will 7iever Jind my door shut and the 
string of the latch pulled in." 




The above represents the veteran HARRISON, as he now lives, a Private C!ti.zen,'m the act 
of welcoming an old soldier into his Cabin, where he had some friends at dinner. He intro- 
duced him thus: — " Gentlemen, here is one of my old comrades who has done battle for his 
country, and he will take a seat with as at table." The soldier, thus introduced, was received 
with open arms and joy ful hearts, by the company. 



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Manifestations of popvilar favour towards 
General Harrison, during the war, Oct. 1813. 
— Mr. Richmond Inquirer Ritchie, have you 
forgotten those rejoicings ] 

ONE OF HARRISON'S VICTORIES. 

We continue our evidences of the national 
enthusiasm with which the news of Harrison's 
victory over the combined British and Indians 
under Proctor and Tecumseh, at the Thames, 
in Upper Canada, was received by the people, 
in 18 K!. The following extracts from the ac- 
coiuits of three different ///wwrnaZ/rms, are taken 
from Niles' Register, of October 30th, 1813. 

THE LATE ILLUMINATIONS. 
In Philadelphia. 

Agreeable to permission granted by the 
Mayor, the capture of General Proctor's army 
by the United States army under General 
HARRISON, was celebrated in this city on 
the evening of the 31st October, by a hri/Ii/inf 
{Iluminution. The suburbs also exhibited their 
usual degree of patriotic feeling, and even the 
town of Camden [opposite] was lit up. 

The transparencies in diiTcrent parts of the 
city were so numerous, that it would be a vain 
task to attempt a particular description of them 
— we shall therefore notice a few only without 
any design, however, to disparage others. 

The most conspicuous we saw, were those 
of the house of Jacob G. Koch, corner of Ninth 
and Market streets. The Market street front, 
presented five different transparencies, in front 
of as many large windows. 

The basement story presented two ; the 
western window contained a shaft of a fluted 
Doric column, round which was a scroll, con- 
taining a phrase from General HARRISON'S 
official letter — "7/ has pleased Providence ,•" on 
the summit of the shaft was a bust, with a 
scroll above, inscribed "HARRISON." 

On the window adjacent was a similar shaft, 
with a scroll containing the sentence from 
Commodore Perry's letter — " // has pleased 
the Ahnighfi/,'" and on the summit a bust pre- 
sented by the scroll, inscribed " Pehrt." 
• *•**• 

At New York. 

On Saturday evening, October 23d, pursuant 
to a resolution of the common council, the city 
hall was illuminated in honour of the recent 
successes of the American arms in LTpper Ca- 
nada. That magnificent structure, by far the 
most splendid pile of Architecture in Ame- 
rica, and not exceeded by many in Europe, 
was lighted throughout its spacious front, 
(comprising upwards of fifty windows and 
divisions in the portico) to the tower or cupola 
on the centre, as well as in its extensive wings, 
containing about thirty windows. The trans- 
parent naval paintings used at the former cele- 
bration in the City Hotel were here displayed, 
with the addition of the dying injunction of 
Hie gallant Lawrence, "don't s;ive up the ship." 

Tanuiiani/ Hall next claimed the attention 



of the thousands of admiring specfntors. Over 
the princi|ial entrance of this building was ex- 
hibited a well executed and emblematic transpa- 
rency, painted by Mr. Holland, representing the 
Indian chiefs surrendering to General Haiiiu- 
so!f, soliciting peace, and delivering their 
women and children as hostages, with a view 
of the battle of Lake Eric, and Commodore 
Perry leaving his ship for the Niagara. 
• •»••* 

At Richmond. 
The ilhtmination in this city on Monday 
evening last was by fur the most splendid we 
have ever witnessed, and in every respect 
suited to the occasion. Before the sable clouds 
of night had enveloped the city in darkness, 
the illumination commenced, and the names 
of "Haiirisox, Pern/, and Chaunrey," soon 
shone with distinguished lustre in every quarter. 
Every thing like base, sordid avarice, yielded to 
the finer feelings of patriotism ; and, with few 
exceptions, a just sensibility pervaded every 
bosom. Many transjiarent and appropriate 
paintings presented themselves to the view; but 
it would be invidious to notice the exertions of 
any particular individual, where all performed 
their duty. To crown the climax, and give a 
zest to joy, the ladies of Richmond were seen 
descending in lovely groups, from Shockoe Hil! 
to the main street, there to ornament and em- 
bellish the scene. The most perfect harmony 
and good order prevailed, and the ladies roamed 
about in full security, free and undisturbed. In 
short, but one sentiment seemed to exist ; tho 
sunshine of joy and exultation illuminated 
every couritenance, and none was found 

" So Inst to virtue, lost tn manly thought," 

as to dare interrupt this delightful banquet of 
the mind by the least improper conduct. To 
be sure, the civil authority, much to their credit, 
took every necessary step to prevent disorderly 
behaviour ; but we rejoice to say sensual plea- 
sures were forgotten, while the names of " Har- 
Hisox, Perri/, and Chaancei/" dwelt on every 
tongue. At nine the streets were generally- 
clear of the crowd, and at ten o'clock, agreeably 
to the mayor's request, every light was extin- 
guished. 



REDUCTION OF WAGES. 

We have before had occasion to refer to the 
"Pennsylvania German," a weekly journal, 
devoted to the democratic cause of Harihsox 
and TrLF.H, and conducted by F. J. Grund, 
Esq., a gentleman of extensive literary reputa- 
tion, both in this country and Europe. The 
following admirable article is taken from the 
last numlier of that paper. We commend it . 
to the attention of our workingmen. 
Mr. Buchanan's remarks on the sub-treasury. 

" In Germany," says Mr. Buchanan, "where 
the currency is purely metallic and the cost of 



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eveiT thint? REDUCED to a hard money stan- 
daril a piece of broadcloth can be manufactured 
for fifteen dollars; the manufacture of which, in 
our country, from the expansion of paper cur- 
rency, would cost one hundred dollars. What 
is the consequence ? The foreign French and 
German manuficturer imports this cloth into 
our country, and sells it for a hundred dollars. 
Does not every person perceive that the redun- 
dancy of our currency is equal to a premium 
of one hundred per cent, in favour of the fo- 
reign manufacturer 1" 

And agdin : 

"The comparative LOW PRICES of 
France and Germany have afforded such a 
stimulus to their Tnanufacturers, that they are 
now rafiidiy extending themselves, and would 
obtain possession, in no small degree, even of 
t!ie En-Ush home market, IF IT WERE 
NOT FOR THEIR PROTECTIVE DU- 
TIES. While British manufacturers are now 
languishing, those of the continent are spring- 
ing into a healthy and vigorous existence." 

We would request the Hon. Mr. Buchanan 
to inquire a little more deeply into German 
history and polilic:il economy, before he com- 
mits himself, on the floor of Congress, with 
such wholesale absurdities as the above. If the 
Germans manufacture broadcloths and other 
articles cheaper tlian the Americans, it is not 
owing to the HAKI)-Mo^EY cuhrexcy; but to 
the excessive competition of labour, which not 
only reiluces the price ofgDoda, but also that of 
living below the standard of the United States. 
A man may live in some parts of Germany on 
eight hundred dollars a year and keep a car- 
riage ; but does this cheapness enrich the me- 
chanic or the husbandman 1 Suppose a Ger- 
man earns twelve and a half cents a day, and 
is able to live on ten cents ; and an American, 
owing to the high price of every thing, earns a 
dollar, but requires eighty cents to live upon, 
whicii of the two will l)e better off in the end 1 
Will the American, in course of time, not be 
able to buy out the German ] And as for the 
hard-money currency, which the honourable 
senator lays such a stress upon, does he not 
know that the two largest German states, Prus- 
sia and Austria, have a paper currency ,- the 
Prussian Tresor-scheine being in circulation all 
over Germany, and the notes of the Austrian 
National Bank, equivalent to cash from the 
Rhine to the Danube ] The fact is, that the 
great stimulus given to the industry of the 
Germans, by the Tariff-iininn, the wisest and 
best measure that ever emanated from the cabi- 
net of Berlin, has, in every part of Germany, 
so far increased the demand for a convenient 
medium of exchange as to call a number of 
provincial banks into existence, which now 
flourish in the principal towns of Germany. 
Did not the English, nu'th their /lush paper 
currency, undersell the Germans in their 
own marts at Ijcipsic and Frankfort on the 
Maine, in spite of tiie hard currency of the 
iatter, until the wisdom of the King of Prussia 



protected the German manufacturer, through 
the medium of the taiiiff i.uaouf., from the 
dangerous and fearful competition of Great Bri- 
tain. And what is the moral Mr. Buchanan and 
his confreres wish to draw from tlicse facts, which 
ought to speak in a voice of thunder to the 
American mechanic and labourer? Why, just 
the reverse of that which every reasonable man 
would draw from it, viz. : Let's have an exclu- 
sive specie CUUUENCr, AND AWAT WITH TUK 
TARIFF ! 



Another Lifter pill for Peflicnat Allen, and 
all the other vile traducers and base calumnia- 
tors of the gallant Harhisox. 

Frnin the Philadelphia Port-Folio of 1812, an ad- 
inir.ihly conrtiicti'd (jsriodicil, devoted exclusively 
to literature, and disconnected alto ffctlter from politics. 

BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE. 

Awake I awake ! my gallant friends, 
To arms ! to arras! the foe is nigh; 

The sentinel his warning sends ; 

And, hark ! the treacherous savage cry. 

Awake! to arras! the word goes round; 

The drum's deep roll, the fife's shrill sound, 

The trumpet's blast, proclaim through night, 

An Indian band, a bloody fight. 

haste thee, Baen ! alas ! too late; 

A red chief's arm now aims the blow ; 
(An early, but a glorious fate !) 

The tomahawk has laid thre low. 
Dread darkness reigns. On, Daviess, on! 
Where's Boyd ? And VALIANT HARRISON, 
Commander of the Christian force I 
And Ovveni He's a bleeding corse, 

" Stand, comrades brave, stand to your posts : 
Here Wells and Floyd, and Barton : all 

Must now be won, or must be lost: 
Ply briskly, bayonet, sword and ball." 

Tmrs sfOKE THE oKyKHAL ; when a yell 

Was heard, as though a hero fell. 

And, hark ! the Indian whoop again — 

It is for daring Daviess slain ! 

! fearful is the battle's rage ; 

No lady's hand is in the fray ; 
But brawny limbs the contest wage. 

And struggle for the victor's day. 
Lo ! Spencer sinks, and Warwick's slain. 
And breathless bodies strew the plain : 
And yells, and groans, and clang, and roar, 
Echo along the Wabash shore. 

But mark ! where breaks upon the eye 
Aurora's beam. The coming day 

Shall foil a frantic prophecy, 

And Christian valour well display. 

Ne'er did Constantine's soldiers see, 

With more of joy for victory, 

A cross the arch of heaven adorn. 

Than these the blushing of the morn. 



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Bold Boyd led on his steady band. 

With bristling bayonets burnish'd bright: 
What could their dauntless charge withstand 1 

What stay the warriors' matchless might? 
Rushing amain, ihey.clear'd the field, 
The savage foe constrain'd to yield 
To Haiiuison, who ne.ar &xn\ far. 
Gave FOKM and si'ihit to the wah. 

Sound, sound the charge! spur — spur the steed, 

And swift the fugitives pursue — 
'Tis vain : rein in — your utmost speed 

(^ould not o'ertake the recreant crew. 
In lowland marsh, in dell, or cave, 
Each Indian sought his life to save; 
Whence, peering forth with fear and ire, 
He saw his Prophet's town on fire. 

Now, the great Eagle of the West 

Triumphant wing was seen to w£(ve ; 
And now each soldier's manly breast 

Sigh'd o'er his fallen comrade's grave. 
8ome dropp'd a tear, and mused the while, 
Then join'd in measured march their file ; 
And here and there cast wistful eye, 
That might surviving friend descry. 

But let a foe again appear, 

Or east, or west, or south, or north. 

The soldier then shall. dry his tear, 
An<I fearless, gayly sally forth. 

With lightning eye, and warlike front; 

He'll meet the battle's deadly brunt; 

Come (iaul or Briton, if array'd 

For fight — he'll feel a freeman's blade. 



Hear an old solilior, who wnulil not suffer his com- 
mander to he traduced with impunity : — 

KEMARKS OF MR. POLLOCK, 
Of Muskinghum, Ohio, in reply to some re- 
marks made hrj Mes.^rs. Buchanan and 
FItKid, during /he dtba/e in the Ohio Legis- 
lature, vn Monday the 21th ultimo. 
Mil. Speaker : — I have listened to the de- 
bate with much patience. I have heard abuse 
heaped upon General Harrison, by men who arc 
comparatively young, and although I am un- 
accustomed to speech making, I hope the House 
will bear with me for a few moments, for I 
shall not trouble it long. I shall only reply 
to some jiarticular matters. I shall not deal in 
generals, wi; have too many of them already. 
Sir, I have heard memiters of this House charge 
General Harrison with cowardice, whom he de- 
fended and protected from the war-knife and 
tomahawk of the Indian, when they were sleep- 
ing in their mothers' arms. 

Mr. Speaker, — I know something of General 
Ha'-rison ; and something of his history ; and 
something of his deeds. I know individuals 
who were with him during the last war ; who 
were with him in the battle of the Thames, 
Fort Meigs, and Fort Stephenson. I know, 
sir, that cannon balls, and chain shot, and bomb 
shells, flew thick around him in these battles. 
7 



The gentleman froin (Jltirmont, (Mr. Bucha- 
nan,) said that General Harrison was not du- 
ring the battle of Fort Meigs, near enough to 
have the scales knocked oil', he was near enough 
to have the scales and dirt knocked on him by 
cannon balls. (-'Who saw it J" asked some 
member.) I saw it, sir. I was in the battle, 
I saw a cannon ball strike within two feet of 
General Harrison during the fight. I was 
there. I saw bomb shells Hying all around him. 
Horses were shot down under him, and he was 
in the hottest and hardest of the fight; and 
where balls flew thickest, and where steel met 
steel the fiercest, there would you find General, 
Harrispn. 

I speak what I know, and what my eyes have 
seen. General Harris()n is not a coward ; and 
those who call hi,m coward know nothing of 
him. He was a brave, prudent, and fearless 
general. He took the right course, during the 
last war — he acted a noble part, and his coun- 
try has honoured him for it. Ask the soldiers 
who fought by his side ; whose arms were 
nerved by his [in-sence ; whose hearts were 
cheered by his valour ; and who were led to tri- 
umph and to victory by his courage, and brave- 
ry, and skill, if General Harrison was a coward 
— and they, sir, will tell you, no ! 

Sir, I have done, I only wished to give my 
testimony in favour of General Harrison, and 
to stale what I have seen, in opposition to the 
statements of those who are ignorant of his 
character, and who know nothing of his brave- 
ry and skill. 



WANTED, 

An experienced and sl^ilful "n-rnn?!?/" to deliver 
our young and beautiful niotlier, of a nest of vipers, 
who are preyini; upon her vitals, and hurrying her to 
a premature grave : — 

Some incidents in the Life of an " Old 
Granny." 

In the years 1774, 1775, and 1776, there 
was an ' old granny,' named Benjamin Harri- 
son, who was a member of Congress, and after- 
wards Governoif of Virginia ; he was one of 
the fifty-six ' old grannies' who signed the De- 
claration of Independence; he died, leaving but 
little property, for he was an ' old granny,' and 
devoted himself to his country with so much 
zeal in these stirring times, that he did not, like 
the more sensible olKce-holders of our day, ac- 
(juire a fortune out of public employments. He 
died, leaving a son named William Henry Har- 
rison, who was pursuing his studies at Hamp- 
den Sidney College, when the Indian frontier 
wars broke out. Young Harrison was placed 
under the care of an ' old granny,' named Ro- 
bert Morris, and was a protege and favourite of 
another ' old granny,' named George Washing- 
ton, both of whom, like the father of Harrison, 
had spent their lives in the active service of 
their country. Being the son of an 'old gran- 
ny,' and having been brought up uiulcr the tutel- 
age of the two ' old grannies' above named, it 



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cannot be thought surprising that young Harri- 
son grew up to be an ' old granny' himself. 

In 1793, Harrison joined the army under 
Wayne, and that general, being also an ' old 
granny,' appointed the young volunteer as one 
of his aides-de-camp. In 1797, he resigned 
his commission, and was appointed Secretary 
of the Northwestern Territory. The year after, 
he was elected delegate to Congress. 

Here he did a thing which alone would es- 
tablish his inferiority to the present enlightened 
race of ofTice-holders, The public lands were 
then divided into sections of four thousand 
acres, and were never sold in less quantity than 
a wliole section. — Consequently, a man who 
wished to buy a farm for actual settlement, was 
obliged to buy four thousand acres at the go- 
vernment price, or to purchase a smaller quan- 
tity of some speculator, whose means would 
allow him to hold a whole section : — the price, 
of course, in such cases, was far beyond that 
of the government lands. Being nothing but 
an ' old granny,' Harrison never for a moment 
considered how much superior the interests of a 
few speculators were, to those of the people at 
large, he obtained the passage of an act allow- 
ing sales of as small a quantity as three hun- 
dred and twenty acres, which brought it within 
the means of almost every man. 

The following year this ' old granny' was 
appointed Governor of the territory of Indiana, 
which is now divided into several large States. 
He was appointed repeatedly, at the request of 
the inhabitatUs, and lield the office for fourteen 
years. Lbning this time, he was superintend- 
ent of Indian .Affiirs within the jurisdiction, 
an I sole Commissioner for treating with the 
Indians. During this time the ' old granny' 
negotiated thirteen treaties with the Indian 
tribes, for which services, being an ' old granny,' 
he never made the government any charge. 
The battle of Tippecanoe, and the overthrow 
of the Pawnee Chiefs, were considered very re- 
Bpectahle service for an 'old granny,' and in 
those days were thought to give a man some 
claim upon the gratitude of his country. 

In IS 1 2, when war was declared against Great 
Britain, this ' old granny' was placed in com- 
mand of a large number of volunteers to pro- 
tect the Indiana territory, and was afterwards ap- 
pointed (yonnuander-in-chief of the Northwest- 
ern army. His conduct of that war — his turn- 
ing the tid(! of disaster, and raising in triumph 
and viclury the sinking llag of his country, the 
recovery of .Michigan, the battle of the 'J'hames, 
which destroyed the British army of Upper 
Canada, v^cre also tliought very consiilerable 
services for an ' old granny.' 

After resigning his commission, this ' old 
granny' was again appointed Commissioner to 
treat with tln^ Indiatis. In 181.'), he was elected 
a member of the Lower House of Congress, 
and in 18:M he was elected a Senator in Con- 
gress, from the State of Ohio. In 1S28, he 
was appointed Minister Pleni])otentiary to Bo- 
gota, by Jolin Quincy Adams, the 'old granny' 



who lately presided over the House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

No man in this country ever possessed such 
opportunities for making a fortune out of his 
official station, especially by land speculations ; 
from his position in the Territory of Indiana, 
and from his knowledge of the country — of its 
situation, resources, and growing importance — 
he could have easily obtained possession of 
tracts of land, the natural rise in the value of 
which would have made him as rich as a Girard 
or an Astor. But he was an ' old granny,' and 
having been educated in tlie .school of such an 
' old granny' as George Washington, he could 
not be supposed to know as much as the land re- 
ceivers and other oflicc-holders of our day, who 
get rich on the plunder of the treasury, and then 
resign their offices and nominate their succes- 
sors. So General Harrison retired from office 
as poor as he was when he entered it, and now 
like a second Cincinnatus ; who, we dare say, 
was also an ' old granny,' he lives by the culti- 
vation of the soil. 

S) it appears that William Henry Harrison, 
the ' old granny,' of whom we have been speak- 
ing, has been 

Secretary of the Northwestern Territory, 
Governor for fourteen years of the Territory 
of Indiana, 

Superintendent of the Indian Afiairs, 
Commissioner for treating with the Indians, 
Representative in Congress, 
Senator in Congress, 
Major-general in tiie United States army, 
Commander in the northwestern army in 
the last war, and 

Minister Plenipotentiary to Bogota 
Thus we may see what it takes to make an 
' old granny ;' he is before the people whom he 
has so long and so faithfully served, and has 
been nominated as a candidate for one other 
onice, that of President of the United States. 
In the long career of eminent and successful 
public services, he has never been accused of 
one di-honest action; he stands forth with 
clean hands, a clear head, and an honest heart, 
Tnt people's canuuiatk r-oii Phksidext. 

A Roland for an Oliver : — 

A resolution was olfered a week or two ago 
in the Kentucky Legislature, that the Governor 
should order a national salute to he llred on the 
8lh of January, in commejiioration of tlie battle 
of New Orleans. The resolution was passed, 
but passed with this interesting amendment : 
" Resolved, That the cannon captured from the 
British on the fuh of October, 1813, at the 
battle of the Thames, by (.:enoral Willtam 
Hemiy Hauujson, and his brave companions 
in arms, be alone used iiy his Excellency, in 
firing the foregoing salute." 



" The Whig presses are perfect nuisances." 
Gcor<j;ia Coiisiitufio'ieit/f,'. — That's just what 
the horse-thief thought of the sheriff. 



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GENERAL HARRISON'S CELEBRATED 
LETTER TO BOLIVAR, IN FAVOUR 
OF CIVIL LIBERTY. 

The fnllowiii!; letter was aildrnpspfl to Eoliv'ir,hy 
General Harrison, o/rfi- he li.iil t.iken his leave as 
Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister I'lenipolen- 
tiary, from the United States to tlie Ueptililir nf Co- 
lombia ; and consequently in the character of a pri- 
vate citizen. It was suggested by the far that Boli- 
var woulil yield to the exigencies of the limes and 
assume rifful vou-er, by convertinq; the Uepublican 
government of Colombia into a despotism. General 
Harrison, however, prompted by that love <pf liberty 
which has always characteriised him, determined, if 
jiossiblo, to dissuade him from a design so inimical 
and fuVil to the cause of republicanism. 

As introductory to the letter, wo extract the follow- 
ing explanatory remarks, from the Tippecanoe Text- 
Book, a most valuable publication, consisting almost 
exclusively of docnmenlary cridcnce contained in 
Niles's Register, which is ndnnttrd us Icfral cvideitce 
in our courts of justice— n.ni\ which cannot, conse- 
quently, be rejected by the most violent partisans of 
the ^^ spoils party." 

In the latter part of the year 1828, Gen- 
eral Harrison was apfioiiitetl minister pleni- 
potentiary to the republic of Colonihia, and 
sailed on his mission the. 10th of November, 
from New York, in the United States ship Erie. 
He arrived at Bogota on the Sth of February, 
1829, and presented his credentials on the27lh, 
and was received in the most flattering manner. 
Niles, vol.xxxv. p. 181, and vol. xxxvi. p. 121. 

The ofllcial government journal, at Bogota, 
(Niles, vol. xxxvi. p. 134,) on announcing his 
arrival, said : — " V/e congrattilatc Colombia on 
beholding the interest which is manifested by 
the government of the United States, to culti- 
vate the friendly relations with this republic, l)y 
sending among us so disiitiguished a citizen as 
General Harrison. The government has full 
confidence that ids permanent residence in 
this capital, will contribute generally to strength- 
en the harmony and good understanding which 
happily exist between the two nations." 

General Jack.son was inaugurated president 
of the United States on the 4 th of March, 
1829, and on the 8th of that month, or t/iirty- 
one (lat/R after General Harrison reached Bogo- 
ta, he was recalled ; and Thomas P. Moore, of 
Kentucky, ap[ioiuted his successor. 

The ahovc facts are a sunicicnt refutation of 
the charge, that he was recalled in consequence 
of his interference in the political affairs of 
Colombia: for the government of the United 
States could not have been ollicially informed 
of his arrival at Bogota at the time the ap- 
pointment was conferred upon Mr. Moore: and 
it will, also, be seen that (Jeneral Harrison's 
celebrated letter to Bolivar, inserted in subse- 
quent pages, iva.'i mrilffn more tliun six nionlhs 
after Mr. Moore's appointment, and not de- 
livered to BiiliiHtr until General Harrison's ojji- 
clal duties hud terminaled — for Mr. Moore ar- 
rived at Bogota in September, and was pre- 
sented on the 26th of that month, on which 
day General Harrison had his audience of leave ; 



and on the next day, when (ieneral Harrison 
was a private citizen, tiie letter was written. 
Bolivar was absent when General Harrison took 
his leave ; but it is evident, from the follov*'ing 
extract from the address of the council, that 
the most friendly relations existed between hira 
and the government, at the time of his depar- 
ture, and that it had no cause to complain of 
his private or official conduct. 

'■ In expressing to yon, sir, the sentiments 
of this council towartis your government, it is 
agreeable to me to declare, that the hopes formed 
by Colombia, when the appointment was an- 
nounced of so distinguished a general, and one 
of the most eminent citizens of the oldest re- 
public of America, had been realized by your 
residence in this capital, as envoy extraordina- 
ry and minister plenipotentiary near this go- 
vernment,- and therefore it is highly satisfac- 
tory to mo to show the higli esteem which 
your personal qualities have inspired." 

The fi)lIovving is his letter to Bolivar, which 
has commanded general admiration by the 
beauty and energy of its style, and the sound 
and jiatriotic admonitions which mark every 
sentence. It is, indeed, a must eloquent appeal 
to the best and most noble feelings of our na- 
ture, and alone should win for the author the 
respect and admiration of every lover of civil 
liberty. 

" Bns:!ita, 27th September, 1829. 

"Si It — If there is any thing in the style, the 
matter, or the object of this letter, which is cal- 
culated to give offence to your excellency, I am 
persuaded you will readily forgive it, when you 
rellect on the motives which induced me to 
write it. An old soldier could possess no 
feelings but those of the kindest character to- 
wards one who has shed so much lustre on the 
profession of arms; nor can a citizen of the 
country of Washington cease to wish that, in 
Bolivar, the world might behold another in- 
stance of the highest military attainments, 
united with the purest patriotism, and the great- 
est capacity for civil goverimient. 

Such, sir, have been the fond hopes, not only 
of the people of the United States, but of the 
friends of liberty throughout the world. I will 
not say that your excellency has formed projects 
to defeat these hopes. But there is no doubt 
that they have not only been formed, but are. at 
this moment, in progress to maturity, and openly 
avowed bj' those who possess your entire confi- 
dence. I will not attritinte to these men impure 
motives ; but can they be disinterested advisers ? 
.\re they not the very jiersons who will gain 
most by the proposed change! — who will, in- 
deed, gain all that is to be gained, without 
furnishing any part of the equivalent ? That 
that, the price of their future wealth and ho- 
nours, is to be furnished exclusively by yourself? 
And of what does it consist I Your great cha- 
racter. Such a one, that, if a man were wise, 
and possessed of the empire of the C.-Bsars, in 
its best days, he would give all to obtain. Arc 



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you prepared to make this sacrifice for such an 
object 1 

I am persuaded that those who advocate these 
measures have never dared to induce you to 
adopt them, by any argument founded on your 
personal interests ; and that, to succeed, it would 
be necessary to convince you that no other 
course remained to save the country from the 
evils of anarchy. This is the question, then, 
to be examined. 

Does the history of this country, since the 
adoption of the constitution, really exhibit un- 
equivocal evidence that the people are unfit to 
be free? Is the exploded opinion of a European 
philosopher, of the last age, that " in the new 
hemisphere man is a degraded being," to be re- 
newed, and supported by the example of Colom- 
bia] 'I'he proofs should, indeed, be strong, to 
induce an American to adopt an opinion so hu- 
miliating. 

Feeling always a deep interest in the success 
of the revolutions in the late Spanish America, 
I have never been an inattentive observer of 
events, pending and posterior to the achieve- 
ment of its independence. In these events, I 
search in vain for a single fact to show that, in 
Colombia at least, the slate of society is unsuited 
to the adoption of a free government. Will it 
be said that a free government did exist, but, 
being found inadequate to the objects for which 
it had been instituted, it has been superseded by 
one of a diilereut character, with the concurrence 
of a majority of the people 1 

It is the most difficult thing in the world for 
rae to believe that a people in the possession of 
their rights as freemen, would ever be willing to 
surrender them, and submit themselves to the 
will of a master. If any such instances are on 
record, the power thus transferred has been in a 
moment of extreme public danger, and then 
limited to a very short period. I do not think 
that it is by any means certain, that the majority 
of the French people favoured the elevation of 
Napoleon to the throne of France. But, if it 
were so, how dilferent were the circumstances 
of that country from those of Colombia, when 
the constitution of Cucuta was overthrown ! 
At the period of the elevation of Napoleon to 
the first consulate, all the powers of Europe 
were the open or secret enemies of France ; civil 
war raged within her borders ; the hereditary 
king possessed many partisans in every pro- 
vince; the people, continually betrayed by the 
factions which murdered and succeeded each 
other, had imbibed a portion of their ferocity, 
and every town and village -.vitnessed the in- 
discriminate slaughter of both men atid women, 
of all parties and principles. Does the history 
of Colombia, since the expulsion of the .Spani- 
ards, present any parallel to these scenes ] Her 
frontiers have been never seriously menaced ; 
no civil war raged ; not a partisan of the former 
government was to be found in the whole extent 
of her territory ; no factions contended with each 
other for the possession of power; the execu- 
tive government remained in the hands of those 



to whom it had been committed by the people, 
in a fair election. In fact, no people ever passed 
from under the yoke of a despotic government, 
to the enjoyment of entire freedom, with less 
disposition to abuse their newly-acquired power, 
than those of Colombia. They submitted, in- 
deed, to a continuance of some of the most ar- 
bitrary and unjust features which distinguished 
the former government. If there was any dis- 
position, on the part of the great mass of the 
peo[ile, to elfect any change in the existing order 
of things; if the Colombians act from the same 
motives and upon the same principles which 
govern mankind elsewhere, and in all ages, they 
would have desired to take from the government 
a part of the power which, in their inexperi- 
ence, they had confided to it. The monopoly of 
certain articles of agricultural produce, and the 
oppressive duty of the Alcavaia, might have 
been tolerated, until the last of their tyrants 
were driven from the country. But when 
peace was restored, when not one enemy re- 
mained within its borders, it might reasonably 
have been supposed that the people would have 
desired to abolish these remains of arbitrary go- 
vernment, and substitute for them some tax more 
equal and accordant with republican principles. 

On the contrary, it is pretended that they had 
become enamoured with these despotic mea- 
sures, and so disgusted with the freedom they 
did enjoy, that they were more than willing to 
commit their destinies to the uncontrolled will 
of your excellency. Let me assure you, sir, 
that these assertions will gain no credit with 
the present generation, or with posterity. They 
will demand the facts which had' induced a 
people, by no means deficient in intelligence, so 
soon to abandon the principles for which they 
had so gallantly fought, and tamely surrender 
that liberty which had been obtained at the ex- 
pense of so much blood. And what facts can 
be produced ? It cannot be said that life and 
property were not as well protected' under the 
republican government as they have ever been ; 
nor that there existed any opposition to the 
constitution and laws, too strong for the ordinary 
powers of the government to put down. 

If the insurrection of General Pae?,, in Vene- 
zuela, is adduced, I would ask, by what means 
was he reduced to obedience'? Your excel- 
lency, the legitimate head of the republic, ap- 
peared, and, in a moment, all opposition ceased, 
and Venezuela was restored to the republic. But 
it is said that this was olfected by ymir perso- 
nal inlluence, or the dread of your tnilitary ta- 
lents; and that, to keep General Pae/., and other 
ambitious chiefs, from dismembeiing the repub- 
lic, it was necessary to invest your excellency 
with the extraordinary powers you possess. 
There would be son^e reason in this, if you had 
refused to act without these powers ; or, having 
acted as you did, you had been unable to ac- 
complish any thing without them. But you 
succeeded completely, and there can be no pos- 
sible reason assigned why you would not have 
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future attempt of General Paez, or any other 
general. 

There appears, however, to be one sentiment 
in which all parlies unite; that is, that, as 
matters now stariil, vou alone can save the 
country from ruin,' at least, from much cala- 
mity. They differ, however, very wiilely, as to 
the measures to be taken to put your excellency 
in the way to render this important service. 
The lesser, and more interested party, is for 
placing the government in your hands for life; 
cither witli your present title, or with one 
which, it nnist he confessed, bettor accords with 
the nature of the powers to he exercised. If 
they adopt the less olfensive title, and if they 
weave into their .«ygtem some apparent checks 
to your will, it is only for the purpose of mask- 
ing, in some degree, their real object, which is 
nothing short of the establishment of a despo- 
ti;?m. 'J'he plea of necessity, that eternal argu- 
ment of all conspirators, ancient or modern, 
against the rights of mankhul, will be resorted 
to, to induce you to accede to their measures ; 
and the unsettled state of the country, which 
has been designedly produced by them, will lie 
adduced as evidence of that necessity. 

There i-s but one way for your excellency 
to escape from the snares which have been so 
artfully laid to entra|) you, and that is, to stop 
short in the course which, unfortunately, has 
been already couiincnccd. Every step yo\i ad- 
vance, under the influence of such counsels, will 
make retreat more dillicult, until it will become 
impracticable. You will be told that the in- 
tention is only to vest you with authority to 
correct what is wrong in the administraiicm, and 
to put down the factions, and that when the 
country once enjoys traiuiuillity, the govern- 
ment may be restored to the people. Delusive 
will be the hopes of those who rely upon this 
declaration. The promised hour of iraiiipnllity 
will never arrive. If events tetided to produce 
it, tliey would be counteracted by the govern- 
ment itself. It was the strong remark of a former 
president of the United Slates, that, ' Si)oner 
will the lover be contentetl with the first smiles 
of his mistress, than a government cease to en- 
deavour to preserve and extend its powers.' 
With whatever reluctance your excellency may 
connnence the career; with whatever disposition 
to abandon it, when the objects for which it was 
commenced have been obtained ; when once 
fiirly entered, you will be borne along by the 
irresistible force of pride, habit of command, and, 
indeed, of self-preservation, and it will be im- 
possible to recede. 

But it is said that it is for the benefit of the 
people that the proposed change is to be made; 
and that by your talents and influence alone, 
aided by unlimited power, the ambitious chiefs 
in the different departments are to be restrained, 
and the integrity of the republic preserved. I 
have said, and I most sincerely believe, ihat^ 
from the st.atc into which the country has been 
brought, that you alone can preserve it from 
the horrors of anarchy. But I cannot conceive 



that any extraordinary powers are necessary. 
Tlie authority to see that the laws are executed ; 
to call out the strength of the country to enforce 
their execution, is all that is rcjuired, and is 
what is possessed by the chief magistrate of the 
United States, and of every other republic; and 
is what was confided to the executive, by the 
constitution of Cucuta. Would your talents or 
your energies be impaired in the council, or the 
fiel<l, or your influence lessened, when acting as 
the head of a republic 1 

I jiropose to examine, very briefly, the rc- 
sult:3 which arc likely to flow from the pro- 
posed change of government : First, in relation 
to the country; and, secondly, to yourself, per- 
sonally. Is the tranquillity of the country to 
be secured byitl Is it possible for your ex- 
cellency to believe, that when the mask has 
been thrown olV, and the people discover that 
a despotic government has been fixed njion 
them, that they will quietly submit to it ! Will 
they forget the pass-word, which, like the cross 
of fire, was the signal for rallying to oppose 
their former tyrants ! Will the virgins, at your 
bidding, cease to chant the songs of liberty 
which so lately animated the youth to victory ? 
Was the patriotic blood of Colombia all expend- 
ed on the fields of Vargas, Bayaca, and Carebo- 
bo ? The Kfhools may cease to enforce upon 
their pupils the love of country, drawn from the 
examples of Cato and the Bruli, Harmodius and 
Aristogiton ; but the glorious example of patri- 
otic devotion, exhibited in your own Hacienda, 
will supply their place. Depend oa it, sir, 
that the moment which shall announce the 
continuance of arbitrary power in your hands, 
will be the commencement of commotions 
which will require all your talents and energies 
to suppress. You may succeed. The disci- 
plined army, at your disposal, may be too power- 
I'ul for an unarmed, utidisciplined, and scat- 
tered population ; but one unsuccessful effiirt 
will not content them, and your feelings will be 
eternally racked by being obliged to make war 
upon those who have been accustomed to call 
you their father, and to invoke blessings on 
your head, and for no cause but their adherence 
to principles which you yourself had taught 
them to regard more than their lives. 

If, by the strong government which the ad- 
vocates for the proposed change so strenuously 
recommend, one without responsibility is in- 
tended, which may put men to death, and im- 
mure them in dungeons, without trial, and one 
where the army is every thing, and the people 
nothing, I must say, that, if the tranquillity of 
Colombia is to be [nescrved in this way, the 
wildest anarchy would be preferable. Out of 
that anarchy a better government might arise; 
but the chains of military des[)otism once fas- 
tened upon a nation, ages might pass away be- 
fore they could be shaken olf. 

But I contend that the strongest of all govern- 
ments is that which is most free. We consider 
that of the United States as the strongest, 
precisely l>ecause it is the most free. It pos- 
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sesses the faculties equally to protect itself from 
foreign force or iritern;il convulsion. In both it 
h:is been sufficiently tried. In no country upon 
earth would an armed opposition to the laws 
be s.ioner or more efleclually put down. Not 
so much by the terrors of the guillotine and the 
gil>bct, as from the aroused determination of the 
nation, exhibiting their strength, and convinc- 
ing the ficlious that their cause was hopeless 
No, sir, depend upon it, that the possession of 
arbitrary jjower, by the government of Colom- 
bia, will not be the means of securing its tran- 
qtiillity ; nor will the danger of disturbances 
solely arise from the opposition of the people. 
The power, and the military force which it will 
be necessary to put in the hands of the gover- 
nors of the distant provinces, added to the na- 
ture of the country, will continually present to 
those olficers the temptation and the means of 
revolt. 

Will the proposed change restore prosperity 
to the country 1 With the best intentions to 
do 80, will you be able to recall commerce to 
its shores and give new life to the drooping state 
of agriculture 1 The cause of the constant de- 
cline, in these great interests, cannot be mistaken. 
It arises from the fewness of those who labour, 
and the number of those who are to be sup- 
ported by that labour. To support a swarm of 
luxurious and idle monks, and an army greatly 
disproportioned to the resources of the country, 
with a body of officers in a tenfold degree dis- 
proportioned to the army, every branch of indus- 
try is oppressed with burdens which deprive the 
ingenious man of the profits of his ingenuity, 
and the labourer of his reward. To satisfy the 
constant and pressing demands which are made 
upon it, the treasury seizes upon every thing 
within iU grasp — destroying the very germ of 
future prosperity. Is there any prospect that 
these evils will cease with the proposed change 1 
Can the army be dispensed with ] Will the 
influence of the monks be no longer necessary ! 
Believe me, sir, that the support which the go- 
vernment derives from both these sources will 
be more than ever requisite. 

But the most important inquiry is, the effect 
which tliis strong government is to have upon 
the people themselves. Will it tend to improve 
and elevate their character, and fit them for the 
freedom which it is pretended is ultimately to be 
besto\ve<l upon them ! The question has been 
answered from the age of Homer. Man does 
not learn under oppression those noble qualities 
and feelings which fit him for the enjoyment 
of liberty. Nor is despotism the proper school 
in which to acquire the knowledge of the prin- 
ciples of republican government. A govern- 
ment whose revenues are derived from divert- 
ing the very sources of wealth from its subjects, 
will not find the means of improving the morals 
and enlightening the minds of the youth, by 
supporting systems of liberal education ; and, 
if it could, it would not. 

In relation to the elfect which this invest- 
ment of power is to have upon your happiness 



and your fame, will the pomp and glitter of a 
court, and the flattery of venal courtiers, reward 
you for the troubles and anxieties attendant 
u|)on the exercise of sovereignty, everywhere, 
and those which will flow from your peculiar 
situation 1 Or power, sup[)orted by the bayonet, 
for that willing homage which you were wont 
to receive from your fellow-citizens ? The 
groans of a dissatisfied and oppressed people 
will penetrate the inmost recesses of your 
palace, and you will be tortured by the reflec- 
tion, that you no longer possess that place in 
their affections, which was once your pride and 
your boast, and which would have been your 
solace under every reverse of fortune. Unsup- 
ported by the people, your authority can be 
maintained only by the terrors of the sword 
and the scaffold. And have these ever been 
successful under similar circumstances ? Blood 
may smother, for a period, but can never extin- 
guish the fire of liberty, which you have con- 
tributed so much to kindle, in the bosom of 
every Colombian. 

I will not urge, as an argument, the personal 
dangers to which you will be exposed. But 
I will ask if you could enjoy life, which would 
be preserved by the constant execution of so 
many human beings — your countrymen, your 
former friends, and almost your worshippers. 
The pangs of such a situation will be made 
more acute, by reflecting on the hallowed mo- 
tive of many of those who would aim their 
daggers at yoUr bosom. That, like the last of 
the Romans, they would strike, not from hatred 
to the man, but love to the country. 

From a knowledge of your own disposition, 
and present feelings, your excellency will not 
be willing to believe that you could ever be 
brought to cominit an act of tyranny, or even 
to execute justice with unnccessaiy rigor. But 
trust me, sir, that there is nothing more cor- 
rupting, nothing nvrc destructive of the noblest 
and finest feelings of our nature, than the ex- 
ercise of unlimited power. The man who, in 
the beginning of such a career, might shudder 
at the idea of taking away the life of a fellow 
being, might soon have his conscience so scared 
by the repetition of crime, that the agonies of 
his murdered victims might become music to 
his soul, and the drippings of his scaHl)ld afford 
' blood enough to swim in.' History is full of 
such examples. 

From this disgusting picture, permit me to 
call the attention of your excellency to one of 
a different character. It exhibits you as the 
constitutional chief magistrate of a free people, 
giving to their representatives the influence of 
your great name and talents, to reform the 
abuses which, in a long reign of tyranny and 
misrule, have fastened upon every branch of the 
administration. The army, and its swarm of 
officers reduced within the limits of real useful- 
ness, placed on the frontiers, and no longer y)er- 
miltecl to control public opinion, and be the ter- 
ror of the peaceful citizen. By the removal of 
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blishincnt of ordov, rrsponsiliility.and rconorti)', i 
in tilt' PX|)eniliturcs of the goveriimrrit. it would | 
soon lie enabled to dispense with the odious 
inonopolies, and the duty of the ulcavala, which 
hiive operated with so malij^n an eficct upon 
commerce, and aijricuiturc, and, indeed, upon 
the revenues which they were intended to aug- 
ment. No longer oppressed by these shackles, 
industry would everywhere revive: the farmer 
and the artisan, cheered by the prospect of 
ample reward for their labour, would redouble 
their exertions ; foreigners, with their capital 
;ind skill in the arts, would crowd hither, to 
enjoy the advantages which could scarcely, 
elsewhere, be found : and Colombia would soon 
exhibit the reality of the beautiful fiction of 
Feiielon — Salentum rising from misery and 
o]ij)ression, to prosperity and happiness, under 
the counsels and direction of the concealed 
goddess. 

What objections can be urged against this 
course 1 Can any one acquainted with the 
circumstances of the country, doubt its success, 
in restoring and maintaining tranquillity I The 
people would certainly not revolt against them- 
selves; and none of the chiefs who arc sup- 
posed -to be factiously inclined, would think of 
opposing the strength of the nation, when di- 
rected by your talents and authority. But it is 
said, that the want of intelligence amongst the 
people unfits them for the government. Is it 
not right, however, that the expeiiment should 
be fairly tried ? I have already said that this 
has not been done. For myself, I do not hesi- 
Lite to declare my firm belief, that it will suc- 
ceed. The people of Colombia possess many 
traits of character suitable for a republican go- 
verrmient. A more orderly, forbearing, and 
well-disposed people are nowhere to be met 
with. Indeed, it may safely be asserted, that 
their faults and vices arc attributable to the 
cursed government to which they have been so 
long subjected, and to the intolerant character 
of the religion, whilst their virtues are all their 
own. But, admitting their present want of 
intelligence, no one has ever doubted their 
C4»pacily to acquire knowledge, and under the 
strong motives which exist, to obtain it, sup- 
ported by the influence of your excellency, it 
would soon be obiiiined. 

To yourself, the advantage would be as great 
as to the country ; like acts of mercy, the bless- 
ings would be reciprocal ; your personal happi- 
ness secured, and your fame elevated to a 
height which would leave but a single compe- 
tition in the estimation of ])osterity. In be- 
stowing the palm of merit, the world has be- 
come wiser than formerly. The successful 
warrior is no longer regarded as entitled to the 
first place in the temple of fame. Talents of 
this kind have become too common, and too 
often used for mischievous purposes, to be re- 
garded as they once were. In this enlightened 
age, the mere hero of the lleld, and the success- 
ful leader of armies, may, for the moment, 
attract attention. But it will be such as is 



bestowed U[)on the passing meteor, whose blaze 
is no longer remembered, when it is no longer 
seen. 'I'o be esteemed eminently great, it is 
necessary to be eminently good. The (pialities 
of the hero and the general must be devoted to 
the advantage of mankind, before he will be 
permitted to assume the title of their benefactor; 
and the station which he will ludd in their re- 
gard and afVeclions will depend, not u|)on the 
number and the splendour of his victories, but 
upon the results and the use he may make of 
the inlluenre he acipiires from them. 

If the fame of our Washington depended 
upon his military achievements, would the 
common consent of the world allow him the 
pre-eminence he possesses 1 The victories at 
Trenton, Monmouth, and York, brilliant as 
they were, exhibiting as they certainly did, the 
highest grade of military talents, are scarcely 
thought of. The source of the veneration and 
esteem which is entertained for his character, 
by every description of polilicians — the mo- 
narchist and aristocrat, as well as the republican, 
is to be found in his undevialing and exclusive 
devotedness to the interest of his country. 
No selfish consideration was ever suffered to 
intrude itself into his mind. For his country 
he conquered; and the unrivalled and increas- 
ing prosperity of that country is constantly add- 
ing fresh glory to his name. General, the course 
which he pursued is open to you, and it depends 
upon yourself ti;) attain the eminence which he 
has reached before you. 

To the eyes of military men, the laurels you 
won on the fields of Vargas, Bayaca and Ca- 
rebobo, will be forever green ; but will that 
content you ■ Are you willing that your name 
should descend to posterity, amongst the mass 
of those whose fame has been derived from 
shedding human blood, without a single advan- 
tage to the human race! Or, shall it be united 
to that of Washington, as the founder and the 
father of a great and happy people ? The 
choice is before you. The friends of liberty 
throughout the world, and the jieople of the 
United States in particular, arc wailing your 
decision with intense anxiety. .Alexander toiled 
and conquered to attain the applause of the 
Athenians; will you regard as nothing the 
opinions of a nation which has evinced its 
superiority aver that celebrated people, in the 
science most useful to man, by having carried 
into actual practice a system of government, 
of which the wisest Athenians had but a 
glimpse in theory, and considered as a bless- 
j ing never to be realized, however ardently to be 
I desired ? The place which you arc to occupy 
' iji their esteem depends upon yourself. Fare- 
well. W. H. Hakuisox. 



" As long as the leaders of the Roman ar- 
mies were taken from the plough, to the pliugh 
they were willing to return." — Fruin Central 
/-/ti?T/.vf)7i'i' Address before the Agricullural 
I Society. 



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The following; high testimony speaks trumpet-tongiied to every American heart, that is not 
hardened by political rancour ; — 





Resolved iy /^e Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 
Consrcss assemljltd. That the THANKS OF CONGRESS be, and they are hereby presented 
to Major-general WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, and ISAAC SHELBY, late Governor 
of Kenluclvy, and through them to the Okficehs and Mix under their command, for their 
gallantry and good conduct in defeating the combined British and Indian forces under Major- 
general Proctor on the Thames, in Upper Canada, on the mil day of October, 1813 — capturing 
the BRITISH ARMY, with their baggage, cam|) equipage and artillery — and that the Pue- 
fiinENT of the IJnmtkd States be requested to cause two GOLD MEDALS to be struck, 
emblematical of this TuiuMni, and presented to General HARRISON and ISAAC SHELBY, 
late Governor of Kentucky. 

H. CLAY, Speaker House (f Representatives. 

UwANXMousi.Y ADOPTED. JOHN G AlhljARD, Pre.sident Smute pro tem. 

See Niles' Register, vol. xiv. p. 186. April Mh, 1S18, Approved, JAMES MONROE. 



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The following thrilling story will cause every heart 
to vibrate witli jrrutitiiile, thut is wanned with one 
spark of (jatriotisin. 

From the Ojlio Republican. 

BOYS, DO YOU HEAR "THAT1' 

Twenty-six years ago last autumn, (said a 
gentleman to us the other <lay,) I was a hoy 
attending school in a log cabin, with no other 
windows than the light afforded through the 
space of two logs. 1>3' the removal of a [tiece of 
the third, with grea>y bits of paper pasted on 
as substitutes for glass. This cabin, dedicated 
to learning, was situated in the outskirts of a 
DOW populous town in Pennsylvania. No state 
in the Union furnished more or better soldiers 
for the defence and protection of the northern 
frontier of Oliio. during the late war than did 
PeiULsylvania. Not a few of her sons were in 
the army surrendered by Hull, besides, num- 
bers of her brave fellows were ma.'ssacred and 
scalped at Winchester and Dudley's defeat. 
Still, the afier-ca!l of General Harrison for more 
soldiers, was answered by large numbers of 
Pennsylvanians, including several from our 
village. The departure of these brave fellows 
from their families and friends, was then viewed 
as a voluntary sacrifice of life for the defence 
of their country, and the "farewell, God bless 
ye," was uttered in atone and feeling that sunk 
deep in the hearts of the by-standers, and 
which will never be effaced from my memory. 

In those days, our mails were few and un- 
certain ; and it was only by the occasional 
passing of a sick or disabled soldier returning 
home, that we heard from our army. Time 
hung heavy, and deep gloom overspread our 
country. The last news was, " a battle is soon 
exjjected between the American army under 
(.ieneral Harrison, and the British and Indians 
under the blood-thirsty Proctor and Tecum- 
seh !" 

Days and weeks passed by, and yet nothing 
was heard from our army. Our citizens eager- 
ly hailed all strangers from the west, with the 
an.\ious inquiry of " Any news from General 
Harrison !" Such wa* the delay, doubt, and 
uncertainty, that it was generally feared, and 
by many l)elieved, that Harrison and his army 
had, like those before him, been delcated and 
massacred. 

While I was sitting (said our informant) at 
the low long window of our school-house, and 
our Irish schoolmaster was busy in repeating 
our A B C to the smaller urchins, I suddenly 
heard the sound of a horn. I looked forth, and 
saw descending the hill, half a mile distant, 
the mail-boy on his horse at full speed. At 
the foot of the hill, he crossed a bridge, and 
the rapid clatter of the iron hoof resounded 
thoughout our cabin. Rising the hill near 
us, his horse at full speed, and reeking with 
sweat, he a2;ain soiuided his shrill horn, and 
when opposite our log cabin, he called out : 

" H.irriion has whipped the British and In- 
dians !" 

8 



Our Irish tutor, with as true an American 
heart as ever beat in a son of Erin, sprang from 
his seat as thongh he had been shot — his eyes 
flashing with fire, he screamed out; 

" Boys, do you hear that ?" 

He caught his hat, darted out at the door, 
and followed the mail-boy at the top of his 
speed. 'J'he scholars were not a second be- 
hind — the larger ones taking the lead, and 
shouting "Huzza for Harrison!" and the 
smaller ones running after, halloing and scream 
iiig with fright ! 

The people of our village hearing the con 
fusion, and seeing the mail-boy and horse at 
full run, followed by the schoohnaster at the 
top of his speed, and his whole school scream- 
ing — shouting, and screaming ; and knew not 
what to make of it. The mechanic left his 
shop — the merchant his store ; and the women 
stretched their necks out at the windows, 
while consternation and dismay were depicted 
on every countenance, the mail arriving at the 
office, the carrier rose in his stirrups, and ex- 
claimed, at the same time whirling his hat in 
the air: 

" Huzza for Harrison ! He has whipped the 
British and Indians!" 

" Boy-t, do you hear that .?" 

A universal shout of joy involuntarily burst 
forth — bonfires were kindled in the streets; 
and om- village illuminated at night. In those 
days I heard no one say that Harrison was a 
" coward," or a " granny," but I did bear many 
say, " God bless General Harrison!" 

A Pennsylvanian. 



Gentle reader ! no matter to what party yoii may 
be attached, if this interestine recital shall have 
touched your heart, if you are resolved that the gra- 
titude of the warm-hearted son of F.rin shall not ex- 
ceed that of an American heart towards the brave 
(Upndcr nf Ais country, come join us in tliu follow- 
ing patriotic song. But should your bosom be irre- 
spon.oive to the voice of gratitude ; should you still 
persevere in your base slanders and vile calumnies 
upon the reputation of the jrallant soldier and incor- 
ruplible patriot, you may be abandoned as a bad job, 
and con.^idered as the very quintescence of double 
distilled destructive loco-focoisni. 



SHOULD BRAVE OLD SOLDIERS BE 
FORGOT ! 

Air — " Auld Lang Sijne." 
Should brave old soldiers be forgot ? 

Should patriots fail to twine 
Wreaths, glorious wreaths, for those who fought 

In days of old lang syne : 
No ! long as life endures v^'ill we 

Deep in our hearts enshrine 
The names of those who made us free 

In days of old lang syne. 

Proud England, gloating o'er her crown, 

And king, and " righh divine," 
Sent forth her slaves to chain us down, 

In days of old lang syne: > 



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But frceilom's champions averr'd 

They'd make her '• lion" wiiine ; 
And nobly did they keep their word, 

In days of old latig syne. 

They drew a charter, strong and full — 

Nor did tliey fear to sign 
The bulletin that priek'd John Bull, 

And cut in every line. 
AmoHCT^ those hearts of flint, whose fire 

Lit up the flame benign, 
Was Harrison — Tip's mititcd sire ! — 

A Whig of old lang syne. 

But not the father's fame alone 

Exalts the soldier son — 
He has bright laurels of his own. 

In hard-fought battles won ! 
The Wabash banks — Fort ?>Teigs — the 
Thames — 

Their tributes all combine 
To rank him high with those whose names 

Were dear in old lang syne. 

And who's Van Buren 1 — where, and when 

Did he lead on the brave ; 
Or raise his voice, or wield his pen, 

Or ope his purse, io save ? 
While Tip gave fight, he styled the war 

(J^" Disastrous" and " malign" 
And richly earn'd a coat of tar, 

As tories did lang syne. 

Let those who love Sub-Treasury charms — 

(T^Hard tvork and little pay, 
Closed working-shops and juortgagcd farms — 

Extol King Martin's sway. 
But WF, have solemnly aifirm'd 

We will not rest supine 
Till Vax shall squirm as Choswell smiirm'd. 

And wriggled — not lang syne! 

The knapsack ])il\ow''i\ Haudt's head, 

The hard ground eased his toils ; 
While Maiitjn, on his downy bed, 

Could dream of nought but " spoils." 
And sliall the blue-light rule the free ? 

Shall freedom's star decline 1 
Forbid it Heaven ! forbid it ye 

Who bled in old lang synej 

Is Harrison one whit the VForso 

Because he'd not secure, 
As Martin did, a long, full purse, — 

(Xj'lhtt went from office poor ? — 
And does the low " log cabin" hearth 

Unlit Old Tip to shine 1 
Did no log homes give nobles birth 

In days of old lung syne ? 

What though the hero's hard " huge paws" 
Were wont to j)lough, and sow ? 

Does tliut disgrace our sacred cause ] 
Does that degrade him ? ]\0 ! 



W^hig farmers are our nation's i\erve, 

It's bone — its very spine ! 
TiicyUl ncvr swerve — they did not swerve 

In days of old lang syne. , 

No rufiled shirt, no silken hose. 

No airs does Tip display ; 
But like " the pith of worth," he goes 

In homespun " hoddin-grey." 
Upon his board there ne'er appear'd 

The costly " sparkling wine," 
But plain '' hard cider /" such as checr'd 

In days of old lang syne. 

Connecticut has raised the heel 

Tip's tory-foes to bruise ; 
And keenly do their vitals feci 

Tlie tread of " Jersey- Blues." 
Novembers ides vA\i. give the stroke — 

Hard, final, and condign — 
A blow like that which snapped the yoke 

In days of old lang sync. 

Yes, Tip must grace the big " White House !" 

(Alas ! for groom and cook !) 
And A^AN on kabbitch-slnlka must brouse, 

At home, sweet home — the 'hook ! 
Thrice hail, Old Tip ! " Log Cabin" Tip ! 

"Hard Cider" Tip! To YOU 
The helm we give ! — hail, nol)le ship ! 

" Land ho !" the port's in view ! 
Huzza ! huzza ! kind Heaven be praised — 

The star, the star benign. 
Shines bright ! — 'tis freedom's star that blazed 

In days of old lang syne ! 



The creed cf a genidnc RrpiiliUcan siiirerely enter- 
tained, and my life on its faillifid and ycUginus ob- 
servance. 

GENERAL HARRISON'S CREED. 

The following is the political creed promul- 
gated by (Jcneial Harrison, in a letter to the 
Honoural)lo Harmer Denny, of Pittsburg. It 
is a noble creed — it will bring back our govern- 
ment to the purity which characterized it in its 
palmy days of true democracy. General Har- 
rison says : — 

'• Among the principles proper to be adi)pted 
by any executive sincerely desir ais to restore 
the administration to its original simplicity and 
purity, I deem the following to be of prominent 
importance. 

" First : To confine his service to a single 
term. 

" Second : To disclaim all right of control 
over the public treasury, with the exception of 
such part of it as may be api)ropriated by law, 
to carry on the public service, and that to be 
appliid precisely as the law may direct, and 
drawn from the treasury agreeably to the long 
established forms of that (ie[)arlment. 

" Third : That he should never attempt to 
influence the elections, either by the people or 
the state legislatures, nor sull'cr the federal ofu- 



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ccrs under his control to take any other part in 
them than by giving their own votes when they 
possess th(! right of voting. 

" Fourth : Tiiat in the exerrise of the veto 
power, he shoulil liinit'hi.s rejection of hills to, 
iirst : Such as are in his opinion unconstitu- 
tional. Second : Such as tend to encroach on 
the rights of the states or individuals. 'J'hird : 
Such as involving deep interests, may in his 
opinion require more mature delilieration or 
reference to the will of the people, to be ascer- 
tained at the succeeding elections. 

" Fifth : 'J'hat he should never sufliir the in- 
fluence of his ollice to be used for purposes of 
a pnrelv parly character. 

•• Sixth : 'J'hat in removals from ofTice of those 
who hold the appointincnt diu-ing the pleasure 
of the executive, the cause of such removal 
should be stated, if requested, to the senate, at 
the time the nomination of a successor is made. 

" And last, but not least in importance, 

" Seventh : That he should not sutier the ex- 
ecutive department of the government to become 
the source of legislation ; but leave the whole 
business of making laws for the I'nion to the 
<3e[iartmcnt to which the constitution has ex- 
clusively assigned it, until they have assumed 
that perfect shape, where and when alone the 
opinions of the executive may be heard. 

'• The question may perhaps be asked of me, 
what security I have in my power to offer, if 
the majority of the American people should 
select me for their chief magistrate, that I 
would atlopt the principles which I have herein 
laid down as those upon which my administra- 
tion would be conducted. I could only answer, 
by referring to my conduct, and the disposition 
manifested in the discharge of the duties of 
several imjjortant offices, which have heretofore 
been conferred on me. If the power placed in 
my hands has, on even a single occasion, been 
used for any purpose other than that for which 
it was given, or retained longer than was ne- 
cessary to accomplish the objects designated by 
those from whom the trusts were received, I 
will acknowledge that either will constitute a 
sufficient reason for discrediting any promise I 
may make, under the circua. stances in which I 
am now placed. 

"I am, dear sir, truly yours, 

"W. H.Hauuisox." 



The wealthy capitalists and greedy sppciilators nf 
those (lays may frown upon him, for depriving ihem 
of the opportunity of aiiif.ssing- viillions at the expense 
of the poor man, tint the lionest and indnstrioiis s<;tlli:rs 
of the western lands, will always sliiiwer blessincs 
upon the brave and faithful representative of their 
true interests. 

GENERAL HARRISON AND THE PUB- 
LIC LANDS. 

We extract from that excellent paper, the 
iCnoxvillc Times, the following remarks in re- 
lation to General Harrison's course on the pub- 
lic lands. 



" Although General Harrison has spent a 
great portion of his life in fighting successfully 
the battles of his country, and has of conse- 
quence not mingled so often as he might other- 
wise have done in legislation, he always co- 
operated with the south, and has never sulVered 
an opportunity to escape of manifesting his 
devotion to our republican institutions, by origi- 
nating and sustaining measures which would 
add to the })rivileges and amelioralc the condi- 
tion of the great mass of the people. We will 
here give an instance, in illustration, in addition 
to those which have been already cited to our 
readers. When he fust entered Congress as a 
delegate from the northwestern territory, the 
public lands were sold oidy in lar:.;e liodics of 
J'lttr thi/ufnind acrey. Thv poor iMiiigrant was 
of course unable to buy the small (juaiitity of 
land which his means would allow, at govern- 
ment prices, but was compelled to purchase at 
second hand and increased prices of the wealthy 
and greedy speculator. Gei;eral Harrison's 
move, when he entered Congress, was to have 
the public lands divided into convenient tracts 
for the settler, and by this single act has entitled 
himself t) the gratitude of every true Repub- 
lican in the nation. The following toast in 
allusion to this ptibject was lately given at a 
public dinner at Harrisburg : 

" The public lands — Diviokd nv GEffF.nAt 
Hauuison into small thacts on which 
to build log cabins tor pook mkn." 



Magnanimous recantation by a lender of the spoils 
parti/. 

The New York Evening Post, a loco-foco 
paper, having {luhlished the infamous story, that 
(iencral Harrison voted, " to sell poor while 
men into slavery for debt," magnanimously 
publishes the following recantation : — 

" A letter of General Harrison's has been 
lately published,* from which it appears, that 
in our remarks on the subject of this aliemjit 
to introduce white slavery into the state of Ohio, 
we did him some unintimded injustice. The 
letter is dated, Dec. 2d, 1S21, and appears to 
have been drawn forth by a ncwsi)aper attack 
upon his course in the legislature in relation to 
the same law. We are f^lud to see, that accord' 
ing to Harrison's exp/imalion of the ninttir, 
neither he nor the gcn'lemcn who voted with 
him, were in favour of selling hiimnii beings 
for civil debts," 



Generous and regardless of self even towards an 
en«niy. 

Harrison giving away his onhj blanket. — 
During the ])ursuit of PnocTon, all Haiiiii- 
son's baggage was carried in a valise, and his 
bed was a single blanket fastened over his sad- 
dle. This, last he gave to Colonel Evans, u 
wounded British officer. 

* See page 36 of this Almanac. 



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THE BLOODY, BUT FALSELY-STYLED 
"CODE OF HOiXOUR." 

General Harrison! s ojmiion of the bloody code. 

Under the firm conviction that no legislative enact- 
ments can ever effectually arrest the inhuman and 
nnchristian practice, which forms the subject of the 
following letter, and in the religious belief that this 
vestige of barbarism can only be rendered dU-\\o- 
noiirable by a determination on the parlof the^a»a;i« 
officers if our army and nary, to demonstrate to the 
world, that they "fear GOU more than man,'' 
it affords us sincere gratification to present to the 
readers nf the Tippecanoe Almanac an opportunity 
of ascertaining the opinions of the war-worn ve- 
teran, who, in so many well fought battles with our 
British and savage foes, amid scenes of unparalleled 
danger and dilficulty, has always borne to victory and 
to glory the "stars and the stripes" of our country. 

No Christian or moralist can rise from the pe- 
rusal of this admirable production without entertain- 
ing a high veneration for the head and the heart of 
the g-allant old chief from whom it emanates, and we 
shall be indeed disappointed, if the concluding para- 
graph, evincing higher and holier than human con- 
siderations, do not sink deeply into the hearts of 
Christian parents of all religious denominations. 

North Bend, April!, 1838. 

Deati Sin — You aslc my opinion "of the 
coiJe of honour which decides controversies by 
a resort to the duel." I comply with your 
request, and would do so more readily, if I 
could suppose that any thing that I could say 
would have any influence in putting an end to 
a practice which is the cause of so much indi- 
vidual distress, and violates so many obligations 
of the most sacred character. 

The arguments which may be used against 
duelling are so obvious, and have been so often 
urged by persons much more able to do them 
justice than I am, that I shall content myself 
with giving you what may be termed m.y expe- 
rience in matters of this kind. And as this 
certainly does not exhibit the practice in a very 
fascinating light, it may perhaps have a better 
effect than any other mode of treating the sub- 
ject that I could adopt. 

I believe that there were more duels in the 
northwestern army between the years 1791 and 
1795, inclusive, than ever took jilace in the 
same length of time, and amongst so small a 
body of men as composed the commissioned 
officers of the army either in .America, or any 
other country at least in modern times. I 
became an oiTiccr in the first mentioned year, 
at so early an age, that it is not wonderful that 
I implicitly adopted the o|)inions of the older 
officers, most of whom were veterans of the 
Revolution, upon this as well as upon other 
subjects connected with my conduct and duty 
in the profession I had cho.sen. I believed, 
therefore, in common with the larger portion 
of the officers, that no brave man would de- 
cline a challenge, nor refrain from giving one, 
whenever he considered that his rights or feel- 
ings had been trespassed upon. I must confess, 
too, that I was not altogether free from the opi- 
nion, that even honour might be acquired by a 



well fought duel. Fortunately, however, before 
I was engaged in a duel, either as principal or 
second, which terminated fatally to any one, I 
became convinced that all my opinions on the 
subject were founded in error, and none of them 
more so than that which depicted the situation 
of the successful duellist, as either honourable 
or desirable. It could not be honourable, be- 
cause the greater portion of that class of man- 
kind whose good opinion of an individual con- 
fers honour upon him, were opposed to it. And 
I had the best evidence to believe that, in the 
grave of the fallen duellist, was frequently 
buried the peace and happiness of the survivor ; 
the act which deprived the one of existence, 
planting a thorn in the bosom of the other, 
which would continue to rankle and fester there 
to the end of his days. 'l"he conviction that 
such was the case, with men of good feelings 
and principles, was produced by my witnessing 
the mental sufferings of an intimate and valued 
friend, by whose hand a worthy man had fallen. 
Several years had elapsed from the date of this 
affair, before I became ac(iuaintcd v^'ith him. 

We were soon after associated in the general 
staff of the army, and for the greater part of 
two years, we shared the same tent or barrack 
room, and often the same pallet. I had there- 
fore an opportunity of seeing the agony he 
often felt, when his mind recurred to the event 
which had deprived society of a worthy mem- 
ber, and himself of an esteemed and cherished 
acquaintance. liike the unhappy hermit in the 
tragedy of Douglass, he appeared, in his sleep, 
to "hold dialogues" with the ghost of the vic- 
tim of his superior skill in the use of arms, or 
more perfect self-possession ; and a witness to 
them might have adopted the opinion of the 
youthful Nerval, that the happier lot was his 
who had fallen. Taking the rules which govern 
such matters, as the criterion, my friend had 
nothing wherewith to accuse himself. The 
quarrel was indeed " fastened on him." Gene- 
rous as hrave, he had done every thing in his 
power, to induce a withdrawal of the challenge, 
and when, by a first fire, his adversary was 
wounded, he anxiously desired that the afliiir 
might there terminate. His proposition was 
rejected, his second shot was f;\tal. What an 
instructive lesson does this story present to him 
who would resort to this mode of settling a 
personal dilliculty; and who possesses common 
sensibility, and the principles of humanity and 
honour I — the sad alternatives, his own death, 
or a subsequent life of bitter regret and sorrow. 
A short experience in the army convinced me, 
also, that fighting a duel was not an undoubted 
test of true courage. I know instances of duels, 
and desperate duels, being fought by men who 
would not have been selected by the officers 
who knew them, to lead a forlorn hope. On 
the contrary, I possessed the most positive tes- 
timony to prove, that some of the bravest of 
men would not be engaged in an affair of the 
kind under any circumstances. 

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commencement of my letter, to give you facts 
rather than arguments, I present you with an- 
other reminiscence of my early military life. I 
introiluce it not only to sustain my position, 
but from the respect I .entertain for the iiiomory 
of a gallant brother officer, long since called to 
receive, in another world, his reward for having 
preferred " the praise of God to the praise of 
men." In the summer of the year ll^'.i, Lieu- 
tenant Drake of the infantry of the second sub- 
legion, received a marked insult from another 
officer. Manifesting no disposition to call him 
to an account, some of those who wished him 
well, amongst whom I was one, spoke to him 
on the subject, expressing our fears that his 
reputation as an officer would greatly suffer, if 
he permitted such an insult to pass unnoticed. 
The answer that he gave me was, that he cared 
not what opinion the officers might form of him ; 
he was determined to pursue his own course. 
That course was so novel in the army, that it 
lost him, as I had supposed it would, the respect 
of nearly all the officers. The ensuing sum- 
mer, however, gave Mr. Drake an opportunity 
of vindicating most triumphantly his conduct 
and principles. He had been stationed in a 
smsll fortress, which had been erected by Gene- 
ral Wayne during the winter, upon the spot in 
which they had the previous day deposited a 
quantity of provisions which had been rendered 
remarkable by the defeat of Gen. St. Clair's army, 
three years before. The garrison consisted of 
a single rifle company, and thirty infantry, and 
of the latter Drake was the immediate com- 
mander. In the beginning of .luly, 1794, a 
detachment of the army, consisting of several 
hundred men, under the command of Major 
McMahon, being encamped near the fort, which 
they had escorted from the cantonment of the 
army at Greenville, were attacked, early in the 
morning, by upwards of three thousand In- 
dians. The troops made a gallant resistance ; 
but being turned on both Hanks, and in danger 
of Iwing surrounded, they retreated to the open 
ground around the fort. 

From this, too, they were soon dislodged by 
the overpowering force of the enemy ; in the 
retreat many wounded men were in danger of 
being left, which being observed from the fort, 
the commandant, Captain Ciibson, directed his 
own lieutenant to take the infantry (Drake's 
particular command) and a portion of the rifle- 
men, and sally out to their relief. To this 
Dr&kc objected, and claimed the right to com- 
mand his own men, and as a senior to the other 
lieutenant, his right also to the whole command. 
"O, very well, sir," said the captain, "if such 
is your wish, take it." " It is my wish, sir, to 
do my duty, and I will endeavour to do it, now 
and at all times," was tlie modest reply of 
Drake. He accordingly sallied out ; skilfully 
interposed his detachment between the retreat- 
ing troops and the enemy ; opened upon them 
a hot fire ; arrested their advance, and gave an 
opportunity to the wounded to effect their 
escape, and to the broken and retreating com- 



panies of our troops, to re-form and again to 
face the enemy. Throughout the whole aftiiir, 
Drake's activity, skill, and extraordinary self- 
possession, was most conspicuous. The enemy, 
of course, observed it, as well as his friends. 
The numerous shots directed at him, however, 
like the arrows of Teuccr, aimed at the heart 
of Hector, were turned aside by providential 
interference, until he had accornfijished all that 
he had been sent to [lerforni. He then received 
a ball through his body and fell ; a faithful 
corporal came to his assistance, and with hi.s 
aid he reached the fort ; and those two were 
the last of the retreating party that entered it; 
Drake made it a point of honour that it should 
be so. Mr. Drake was rendered unfit for duty 
for a long time by his wound. He had not, 
indeed, recovered from it, in the summer of 
1700. when he was my guest, when in com- 
mand at Fort Washington, (Uincinnati.) on his 
way, on furlough, to visit his native state, Con- 
necticut. His friends, however, enjoyed his 
presence but a short time; having, a.s I under- 
stood, taken the yellow fever, in passing through 
Philadel[)hia, he died in a few days after he 
reached his home. 

I have yet another reminiscence, the relation 
of which may .serve the cause you have so 
much at heart : — 

An officer of the army had so often and so 
unnecessarily wounded tlie feelings of another 
of the same corps, the duties of which made 
their associations indispensable, that he con- 
sidered himself bound to demand satisfaction 
in the usual way. They met, and the injured 
man fell, receiving a mortal wound, as it was 
anticipated he would, from the superior skill of 
his antagonist in the use of the weapon which 
they used. Being possessed of a high grade of 
talents and an amiable character, he had the sym- 
pathy of all the officers. With others, I visited him 
after he had been removed to his quarters. He 
ex])rcsscd a desire to see the officer with whom 
he had fought, and I was present at the inter- 
view. I wish I could describe, as it merits, this 
interesting scene. The circumstances attend- 
ing it were so deeply imjiressed upon my mind 
that they never can bo effaced as long as me- 
mory holds its seat. 

In the tent, were some hnlf dozen officers, the 
friends of the dying man, (for, as I have said, he 
had, from his amiable qualities, many and warm 
ones,) exhibiting uneijuivocal evidences of their 
sorrow. Conspicuous above the rest, and near 
the head of the rude couch, was the manly form 
of thecommandantof thecorj>s,lo which both the 
duellists belonged, (the beau ideal of chivalrous 
valour, and the Chevalier de Bayard of the 
army,) endeavouring to stifle, as best as be 
could, the feelings which agitated his bosom. 
At a little distance, and in lull view of the vic- 
tim of his passions, sat the insensible : but 

I must restrain the indignation which I still 
feel. He vras my brother officer — we shared 
together the perils of a difficult war — and, ir 
battle, I know that he did his duty — and, what- 



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ever might have hopn his conduct to others, I 
never had personally any reason to complain 
of hira. But there he sat, apparently, at least, 
unatlected by the mischief he had done, by 
huryin<^ in an untimely grave, a man who had 
never injured him, whose arm might be needed 
in the pending decisive battle with the hitherto 
triumphant enemies of his country, and whose 
intellect might at some future time have been 
usefully employed in its councils. The severe 
bodily pain which the dying olhcer had for 
Bomc time suffered, had ceased, and that calm 
and ease succeeded, which is the unequivocal 
harbinger of approaching death, and which a 
gracious Providence has provided for the mor- 
tally wounded soldier, to enable him to offer a 
last prayer for his distant family, if he has one, 
or for the pardon of his own sins. Turning 
liis intelligent eye upon his late antagonist, he 
mildly said, " he had desired to see him, for the 
purpose of assuring him of his sincere forgive- 
ness — that he wished him happiness in this 
world — and that, as the means of securing it 
he recommended to him, with the sincerity of 
a dying man, to endeavour to restrain the vio- 
lence of his passions, the indulgence of which 
had deprived one of life, who had never injured 
him, in thought or deed." 

I am satisfied that what I have said above 
does not entirely meet your inquiry, and that 
you will expect me to state what effect the 
scenes I have described had in forming my own 
principles, and governing my own conduct. I 
have already stated an entire change in my 
sentiments on the subject of duelling, from 
those which I entertained upon my first enter- 
ing tlie army ; and for which no excuse can be 
oijered, but my extreme youth, and the bad 
examples continually before me. In almost 
every other case, possessed of the deliberate opi- 
nions of a man, you might safely conclude that 
his conduct would be in conformity to them. 
But such, alas ! is not the case with men of the 
world, in relation to the laws which form " the 
code of honour." Abstractedly considered they 
all condemn them, while in practice they adopt 
them. In all other cases, independent men act 
from their own convictions, but in this case, 
upon the opinions of others. 

I acknowledge, then, that the change of my 
opinions, which I have admitted in relation to 
duelling, had no other infhience on my conduct 
than to determine me never to be the aggressor. 
But, although resolved to offer no insult nor in- 
flict any injury, I was determined to suffer none. 
When I lefi the army, however, and retired to 
civil life, I considered myself authorized greatly 
to narrow the ground upon which I would be 
willing to resort to a personal combat. To the 
determination which I had previously made, to 
offer no insult or iuHict any injury to give occa- 
.sion to any one to call upon me in this way, 
(for after witnessing the scene which I have 
last described, the wealth and honours of the 
world would not have tempted me to level a 
pistol at the breast of a man whom J injured,) 



I resolved to disregard all remarks upon mv 
conduct which could not be construed into a 
deliberate insult, or any injury which did not 
affect my reputation or the happiness and peace 
of my family. When I had the honour to be 
called upon to command the northwestern 
army, recollecting the number of gallant men 
that had fallen in the former war, in personal 
combat, I determined to use all the authority 
and all the influence of my station to prevent 
their recurrence. And, to take away the prin- 
cipal source from which they spring, in an ad- 
dress to the Pennsylvania brigade, at Sandusky, 
I declared it to be my determination to prevent, 
by all ihe means that the military laws placed 
in my hands, any injury, or even insult, which 
should be offered, by the superior to the inferior 
officers. I cannot say, what influence this 
course, upon my part, may have produced in 
the result. But I state, with pleasure, that 
there was not a single duel, nor, as far as I 
know, a challenge given, whilst I retained the 
command. The activity in which the army 
was constantly kept, may, however, have been 
the principal cause of this uncommon harmony. 

In relation to my present sentiments, a sense 
of higher obligations than human laws, or hu- 
man opinions, can impose, has determined me 
never, on any occasion, to accept a challenge 
or seek redress for a jiersonal injury, by a resort 
to the laws which compose the code of honour. 
I am, very respectfully, 

Your fellow citiien, W. H. Harrisox. 
To Aaron B. Howell, Esq. 



OLD TIPPECANOE ! 

A NATIONAL SONG. 
Tune — " Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue." 
Here's a health to America's friend. 
Here's good luck to the honest and just. 
And who will not join in support of the right, 
Let them still go for Van — if they must / 
It's good from true faith ne'er to swerve, 
It's good from the right ne'er to go, 
It's good to maintain /rf»e Demopbacy's cause. 
And stick by OLD TIPPECANOE ! 

Here's a health to Old Tippecanoe, 

Hurrah for Old Tipf)ecanoe, 

It's good to maintain Democracy's cause, 

And w/e for OLD TIPPECANOE! 

Here's a health to the Sons of the West, 
Here's good will to her matrons and sires. 
Here's a health to oitr Billy, the pride of his 

state. 
Whose name every true heart inspires ' 
Hurrah for OLD TIPPECANOE, 
We'll shout him from Te.xas to Maine, 
And, if (four years ago) he chanced to miss 

fire, 
"Pick his flint — and :vnTr try uim aoaix!" 

Here's a health to Old Tippecanoe, 

Hurrah for Old Tippecanoe; 

It's good to maintain Demochacy's causk. 

And volt for OLD TIPPECANOE ! 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



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The following song was written by an OT,D DE- 
MOCRAT of 1T9S, an original Jackson man, but not 
admiring fuch modern or ^^ patent, dcmocracif' as is 
professed by " Not-a-single-drop-of democratic-blood" 
Buchanan, or "As-long-as-thc-federal-flag-wavcd-in- 
New-Jerscy-I-was-proud-tO;rally-under-it" Garret I). 
Wall, he is now a warm advocate of General Harri- 
son the TRi'E rei>i:di,ican candidate of the teople. 



THE ARISTOCRACY OF DEMOCRACY. 

A XKW SOXR. 
Tune — John Anderson, my Jo. 

Yp aristocratic Democrats ! 

Buchanan. Wall, and Co. 
Ye hlack-cockaded Federalists, 

You're Democrats — Oho ! 
The loco-foco Democrats 

Of which you take the lead, 
Are spawn'd from every faction ! 

Van Buren's bastard breed! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Within whose veins don't flow, 
A drop of Democratic liiood ! 

Buchanan's boast you know; 
You'll say it was before he went, 

To Russia's autocrat ; 
And pocketed some thousands ; — 

A full-blood Democrat! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Who lead corruption's crew; 
Who with a single eye direct, 

Keep office aye in view ; 
The dear ! dear people ! you'd persuade, 

Alas ! poor simple elves, 
Their cash you'd watch with vigilance ; 

Then — pocket it yourselves! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Encased in triple brass. 
While plundering of the people's purse. 

For patriots you would pass ! 
A cut-purse oft-times has been known, 

When running from the crowd, 
To bawl stop thief, stop thief, stop thief! 

The loudest of the loud ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Like hags of dark midnight, 
A pall of blackness you have spread 

O'er pros[)ects once so bright ; 
Industry you have paralysed ; 

Destruction stalks around ; 
And all our country's happiness. 

You've leveU'd with the grovrnd ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Ye sordid demagogues ; 
All round the horizon you have spread 

Delusion's noisome fogs ; 
The ten years' ruthless war you've waged, 

Against our country's weal, 
Our children's children, much I fear, 

Are doom'd for years to feel ! 



Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Sub-treasurers you would be, 
As Democrats par excellence, 

None are more fit than ye ; 
To keep the people's cash, I ween, 

None will your I'hice dispute, 
W'ho'd grudge a. price for honesty. 

Would priceless make Swailtwout ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

Ye hollow-hearted clique. 
Who for the sake of power and pelf. 

Will at no vileness slick ; 
Who Proteus-likc will change your garb, 

Your baseness to disguise. 
To cheat the people of their wealth. 

Their rights and liberties ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

The " sober second thought," 
Of an awaken'd people. 

Will spurn you into naught ! 
The masks torn from your faces. 

And from your places hurl'd ! 
You'll stand the scorn of all matakind, 

A proverb through the world ! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

The hateful theme I'll quit, 
Convinced the people will ere long 

Unmask each hypocrite ! 
And to the view of honest men. 

Your ingrain'd baseness show. 
Ye tiger-hearted demagogues. 

Van Buren, Weight, and Co.! 

Ye aristocratic Democrats ! 

One word, and I have done ; 
ni leave you in the people's hands, 

Led on by HARRISON ! 
Who like a torrent from the hills. 

Will sweep you all away ; 
Your names, a by-word through the land. 

Forever and for aye ! P. P. 



J} rrnmb of comfort for the editors of the Pennsyl- 
vanian, the Globe, tlie Richmond Inquirer, and all 
other organs of the "spoils party." Dare you re- 
pul'Ush? Uo so, ye heartless defiinersl for the pur- 
pose of demonstrating that you possess even the 
minutest, the viost infinitesimal particle of magna- 
nimity. 

From the Philadelphia Inquirer. 

HEAR COLONEL CROGHAN. 

The Pennsylvanian, still pursuing the cha- 
racter of General Harrison with bitter hostility, 
states that Colonel Croghan has recently passed 
through Wheeling, where he was requested to 
give a statement of the conduct of General 
Harrison towards him. Now, says he, we 
shall have the truth, and we ask the Whig 
presses to publish it. We had supposed that 



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every one at all conversant with our own his- 
tory, had already seen the truth from Colonel 
Croghan himself. Here it follows from Hall's 
Life of Harrison, and we ask. the Pennsyl- 
vaaian — will you publish it 1 

"Lower Sandusky, August 27, 1813. 
" I have with much regret seen in some of the 
public prints such misrepresentations respecting 
my refusal to evacuate this post, as are calcu- 
lated not only to injure me in the estimation 
of military men, hut also to excite unfavourable 
impressions as to the propriety of General Har- 
rison's conduct relative to this affair. His cha- 
racter as a military man is too well established 
to need my approbation or support. But his 
public service entitles him at least to common 
justice. This affair does not furnish cause of 
reproach. If public opinion has been lately mis- 
led respecting his late conduct, it will require 
but a moment's cool dispassionate reflection to 
convince them of its propriety. The measures 
recently adopted by him, so far from deservins; 
cenMire are the clearest proofs of his KEEN 
PENETRATION and ABLE GENERAL- 
SHIP. It has been stated also, ' that upon my 
representations of my ability to maintain the 
post, the general altered his determination to 
abandon it.' This is incorrect No such re- 
presentations were ever made ; and the last 
order I received from the general was precisely 
the same as that first given, viz. : 'That if I dis- 
covered the approach of a large British force by 
water (presuming that they would bring heavy 
artillery) time enough to effect a retreat, I was 
to do so ; but if I could not retreat with safety, 
to defend the post to the last extremity.' It 
would be insincere to say that I am not flattered 
by the many handsome things which have been 
said about the defence which was made by the 
troops under my command ; but I nEsiuE no 

PLAUDITS WHICU AUK HESTOWED UPON ME 
AT THE EXPENSE OF GEXtRAL HAIiniSOS. 

I have at all times enjoyed his confidence so 
far as my rank in the army entitled me to it, 
and on proper occasions received his marked 
attention. I have felt the warmest attachment 
for him as a man, and my confidence in him 
as an able commander remains unshaken. I 
feel every assurance that he will at all times do 
me ample justice, and nothing could give me 
more pain than to sec his enemies seize upon 
this occasion to deal out their unfriendly feeling 
and acrimonious dislike ; and as long as he 
continues, (as in my humble opinion he has 
hitherto done,) to make the wisest arrange- 
ments and most judicious disposition which 
the forces under his command will justify, I 
.shall not hesitate to unite with the army in 
bestowing u[)(in him that confidence which ho 
so richly merits and which on no occasion has 
been withheld. 

" Your friend, 

"GEonoE CnooiiATT, 
"Major 17 th infantry, commanding 
" Lower Sandusky." 



Harrison's old soldiers singins in verse the praises 
of tlieir patriotic and brave commander. 

OLD FORT MEIGS. 

BI A SOLDIER WHO FOUGHT THERE. 

Air—" O ! lonely is the forest shade." 
O ! lonely is our old green fort, 

Where oft in days of old, 
Our gallant soldiers bravely fought, 
'Gainst savage allies bold. 
But with the change of years have past 
That unrelenting foe, 
Since we fought here with Harrison, 
A long time ago. 

It seems but yesterday I heard, 

From yonder thicket nigh, 
Th' unerring rifle's sharp report, 

The Indian's startling cry. 
Yon brooklet flowing at our feet. 

With crimson gore did flow, 
When we fought here with Harrison, 

A long time ago. 

The river rolls between its banks, 

As when of old we came, 
Each grassy path, each shady nook. 

Seems to me still the same ; 
But we are scattered now, whose faith 

Pledged here, through weal or wo, 
With Harrison our soil to guard, 

A long time ago. 

But many a soldier's lip is mute, 

And clouded many a brow, 
And hearts that beat for honour then, 

Have ceased their throbbing now. 
We ne'er shall meet again in life 

As then we met, I trow, 
When we fought here with Harrison, 

A long time ago. 



Harrison's civil Character. — While Harrison 
was governor of Indiana, he appears to have 
possessed an unusual faculty of conciliating, 
not only the respect, but the warm affections of 
those placed under his authority. This was 
owing not more to the suavity of his manners, 
and the evident goodness of his heart, than to 
the disinterestedness, the moderation, and the 
wisdom with which he exercised the extensive 
powers entrusted to him. In the appointment 
of all public oflicers, judges only excepted, he 
appealed to the people ; and uniformly selected 
those who appeared to enjoy the confidence of 
their follovv-citizcns. He acted upon this prin- 
ciple even to the sacrifice of private friendship 
and political feeling — having more than once 
appointed to office persons who were opposed 
to him in sentiment, both with regard to men 
and to measures. He also refused to accept 
any of those fees, whether as governor or super- 
intendent of Indian affairs, which before his 
time had been customarily paid. 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



65 



All but the Crown. — The following descrip- 
tion of Mr. Van Buren's regal pomp and 
splendour was furnished by the Washington 
correspondent of the Boston Atlas, under date 
of January 14ih, 1810, the truth of which has 
never been denied by the Globe, or any other 
administration paper. 

"Mr. Van Buren is evidently a vain man, 
and his vanity lies within a narrow circle. He 
is fond of pomp, and show, and the trappings 
of power, as all his actions declare. He dresses 
in the height of fashion, and his equipage is 
the most magnificent that dashes through tiie 
avenues of this magnificent city. His public 
dinner parties are also splendid beyond descrip- 
tion. The table is tricked out with all the 
oniamcnts that the richest jewellers can pro- 
duce. The centre is garnished with a pyramid 
of fantastic finery, and a cunipkte sem'ce of 
gold plate has recently been added to the fur- 
niture of the White House, to dazzle the eyes 
of visitors. This service comprises knives, 
fo7-ks, and spoons of gold — dishes of gold, 
and urns of gold." 

Who can wonder that the court sycophants 
with Tirnon's silver on their lips, should 
sneer at log cabins and hard cider. 



Ooneral Harrison's kindness won the affections, 
and his bravery commanded tlie respect and admira- 
tion even of his enemies. 

General Harrison. — In the Western Star, 
of April .3d, published in Liberty, Missouri, we 
find a letter addressed to the editor by two of Tc- 
cumseh's warriors, Chamblce, who was his aid, 
and William Caldwell, one of his commanding 
officers. They both reside near to Council 
Bluffs, among the Shawnee tribe, of which 
(Caldwell is now head chief. In this letter they 
state their astonishment in seeing it stated in 
some of the papers sent to them, that General 
Harrison was called a coward. "If," say they, 
" die departed could rise again, they would say 
to the white man, that General Harrison was the 
terror of the Tomahawkers." They state their 
acquaintance with him commenced in 1796, 
and they had many friendly smokes with him 
till 1811. Then their tobacco smoke was 
changed into powder smoke. " We then," say 
they, " found Harrison a brave and humane 
man." They conclude by saying that they are 
the only two survivors of that day in this coun- 
try ; and hope that the good white men will 
protect the name of General Harrison. 



From the Philadelphia FA'oning Star. 
(S^\i will be perceived by the following 
announcement, that the chief magistrate of this 
great republic has conferred an office of honour, 
profit, and trust, upon the head devil of the Loco- 
Foco-Fanny-Wright-Agrarian-Infidel horde of 
New York. Shame upon him ! What will the 
religious, moral, and order-loving portion of the 
American community say to this outrage upon 
their feelings ? 

9 



Appointment by the President. — Ely Moore, 
surveyor of the district and inspector of the 
revenue for the port of New York, to take 
effect on the 1st of July next, in the place of 
Hector Craig. 



"ONE FIRE MORE." 

The following anecdote was related by Mr. 
Corwin, of Ohio, at the Harrisburg Conven- 
tion. — Let the friends of reform read it, and let 
" one fire more" be their battle cry in their 
great conflict for Harrison and Liberty. 

I remember, sir, when a boy, to have li.stencd 
with strong interest to the narrative of one who 
had been present at the battle of the Rapids, 
where General Wayne finally vanquished the 
Indian forces in the northwest, and gave peace 
to a widely extended frontier settlement. The 
old soldier said, that whilst the battle was raging 
hottest, many in that wing of the army where 
he was, were beginning to falter and think of a 
retreat. Just at the moment when this feeling 
began to be prevalent, a young lieutenant, who 
was known as the confidential aid of old Mad 
Anthony, galloped up to the line and called to 
the men, with a voice that was heard above the 
roar of battle, " Onward ! my brave fellows ! 
the enemy is llying, one fire more and the day 
is ours." Sir, that lieutenant was Win. H. 
Harrison, now the bearer of that glorious ban- 
ner under which we wage war against usurping 
power, crafty speculation, and blind hostility to 
the good old maxims of our fathers. There are 
foes, there are our country's foes ; let me exhort 
you in the language of the young lieutenant — 
" One fire more, and the day is ours." 

Our neighbour of the Advertiser, in spite of 
his desperate efforts at cheerfulness in relation 
to the Virginia elections, shows an awfully 
woful face. We advise the loco-foco central 
committee to appoint a sub-committee of three 
to hold up his under jaw, otherwise he will 
absolutely frighten the whole party. 

Our neighbour of the Advertiser says, that 
the proposed committee of three, for holding up 
his under jaw, has been duly appointed. Pro- 
bably we shall soon relieve them of their ardu- 
ous task. We think we can teach the fellow 
to hold his jaw without assistance. — Prentice. 



"Sub-treasurers and Bloodhounds. — Both 
imports from hard money countries; Americans 
will show at the next election that both are un- 
congenial to the freedom of their institutions." 

This toast was given at the meeting of the 
Whigs in the city of New York, held on the 
tenth instant, it being the birth-day of General 
Harrison. It couples two species of animals 
together which should never be separated ; let 
the one follow the other : they are both blood- 
suckers — both keen to scent out their prey, 
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The moral feeling of the community has been 
shocked by the idea of employing bloodhounds 
to hunt the poor Indian from the land of his 
fathers, and all the outrages and blunders the 
administration have committed, and all the 
misery they have brought upon the people by 
their folly, and obstinacy, and ignorance, has 
not cast so much odium upon them as this 
bloodhound warfare upon the Indians. 

The sub-treasurers and bloodhounds ! let the 
one '• follow in the footsteps" of the other — both 
identified with the present administration, to 
whom they will stick like the shirt of Nessus, 
and with the same fatal tenacity. S. 

Harrison's Self-deinal and Consideration for 
Others. — It often happened to Harrison and his 
troops, while engaged in the terrible warfare 
which his genius so happily terminated, to 
suffer great privations. Frequently their pro- 
visions were so scanty that there was not 
enough to divide among the men. On such 
occasions, Harrison would not take a morsel 
while there was one common soldier to be 
provided, and he invariably declined the prof- 
fered food, like a generous-hearted, self-denying 
patriot. It was such conduct as this, connected 
with his bravery and excellent judgment, that 
endeared him to his soldiers, so that they ac- 
knowledged that they could never fight so 

WELL AS UNDER HIS COMMAND. 

THE OPPRESSORS OF THE POOR, 

on HARD MONET RULERS. 

Appropriately so termed, because it will be hard 
to obtain. 

REDUCTION OF WAGES. 

Workineinnn '. will ynu consent to be placnd upon 
a levnl with European serfs'? or will yovi resolve to 
live like Frre American Citizens? 

In avowing a desire to reduce wages to the 
lowest specie standard, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. 
Grundy, and Mr. Calhoun have brought upon 
themselves the just indignation of that large 
class of people who earn their bread by the sweat 
of the brow and the honest labour of their 
hands, and whr> have shown themselves more 
conversant with their own interests — zealous 
and watchful of their own rights, than these 
gentlemen seemed to expect. 

He who can suppose the people of this coun- 
try will sanction any measure, or support any 
set of men whose object is to reduce wages to 
the lowest specie standard, must greatly under- 
rate the intelligence of that class of people whom 
they would thus trample upon, and take them 
to be the degraded and qiiritlcss beings they 
would make them. We thank God the Ame- 
rican pt^jple are not yet prepared to receive the 
yoke of vassalage, nor submit to the shackles 
of oppression ; lliry know their own value too 
■well, and C8timat<^ their own dignity too highly 
to allow those who would lord it over them, to 
buy their labour for fifteen or twenty cents a 
day. 



That they may see what the standard of 
wages is in " hard money" countries, to which 
Mr. Buchanan and others would reduce labour 
in this country, we subjoin the following table, 
showing the rates of wages in several of these 
countries. The table is of unquestionable au- 
thenticity, having been prepared by the British 
secretary of state, from accounts received from 
various British consuls, and printed by order of 
Parliament. In the original table the price is 
given in shillings and pence, we have substi- 
tuted dollars and cents so as to bring it more 
directly in comparison with the prices of Ame- 
rican labour. 



Country 

and 
district. 


Description 

of 
labourers. 


Yearly Daily 
wages, wages. 


With or 
without 
board. 


FnANCE :— 




$ 


$ cts. cts. 




Calais 


Ploughmen 


5 to 


6 








Shepherds 


13 






with 




Labourers 






15 


do. 


Boulogne 


Ploughmen 












Labourers 






10 


without 


Havre 


Farm serv'ts 












generally 


8 to 12 




with 


Brest 


do. 


5 to 


6 




do. 


Nantes 


l!abourers 






17 


without 


Charante 


Farm serv'ts 












generally 


3 to 


8 




with 


Bordeaux 


Labourers 






24 to 30 


without 


Bayonne 


do. 






10 to 12 


do. 


Marseilles 


Shepherds 


10 to V2 




with 




Labourers 






9 to 14 


do. 


Corsica 


do. 






22 


without 


Germany:— 












Dantzig 


Farm serv'ts 
Labourers 


.■?to 


4 




with 

without 


Mecklenburg 


Farm serv'ts 


5 






with 




Labourers 






9 to 14 


without 


Ilolstein 


Farm serv'ts 


4 to 


5 




with 




Labourers 






14 


without 


Netherlands 












S. Holland 


Farm serv'ts 


10 to 12 




with 




I,abourers 






12 to 23 


without 


W. Flandf-rs 


Farm serv'ts 


5 






with 


Itai.t :— 












Trieste 


Labourers 






21 


without 




do. 






12 


with 


.Austria 


do. 






16 to 20 


without 




do. 






8 to 10 


with 


Lomhardy 


do. 






8 to 16 


do. 


Genoa 


Farm serv'ts 


4 to 


5 




do. 




Labourers 






10 to 16 


do. 




do. 








without 


Tuscany 


Farm serv'ts 


2 






with 




Labourers 






21 


without 



And this is the condition to which the admi- 
nistration proposes to reduce the free labour of 
this country ; this is their plan for improving 
the condition of the labouring part of the com- 
munity. This is the " penny a day and seven 
shillings for an ox" system. Well did Mr. Mer- 
rick say in his speech : — 

" Now, sir, I am greatly in hopes our people 
will read and ponder over this table ; that they 
will there see that in France yearly wages for 
an able-bodied man range from thirty-eight to 
two hundred and fifty .shillings, and day la- 
bourers get in that country from four and a half 



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to fifteen pence per Jay, and whenever they get 
as much as five pence they have to find them- 
selves. In Germany wages are still lower, and 
range by the year between fifty-two to one hun- 
dred shillings, and day labourers receive from 
four and a half to seven pence per day, and 
find themselves in food. In Soutb Holland, 
farm hands get by the year from two hundred 
to two hundred and fifty shillings, and day 
labourers from three to four pence per day, and 
are found. And so on, sir. Whoever will 
take the trouble to examine the table, which is 
ofTicial and authentic, will see that in these 
countries, which are held up to us as such 
bright examples of hard money countries — 
France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy — wages 
by the year for an able-bodied, sound, healthy 
man, nowhere exceeds two hundred and fifty 
shillings, and, in many instances, fall as low as 
forty, fifty, and sixty shillings, and the daily 
wages range from three to nine and twelve 
pence ; rising in one place, and only one, to 
twenty pence, and the labourer finding himself. 
"What a commentary on the hard money policy 1 
What hope is there for a man born the son of 
poor parents ever to better his condition ? What 
ray of hope is there to stimulate him to exer- 
tion? None, none! He who is born there a 
peasant, dies a peasant. Those born to the 
plough, die at the plough tail ; and all that the 
longest life of labourers' toil can procure for 
them is coarse and scanty means of subsist- 
ence. Think you, sir, these people are made 
happy iHJcause theirs are hard money countries? 
Is this the prosperity boasted of when we are tri- 
umphantly told of the immense amounts of gold 
and silver held by their great capitalists ] Is 
this an example worthy of our imitation 1 
Think you, sir, the high blood of AMERICAN 
FREEMEN will submit to this ] NEVER!" 



THE VOICE OF PATRIOTISM LOUDER 
THAN THE VOICE OF PARTY. 

Let every true Repuhlkan read the following manly 
and patriotic cotniniinication from a distinguished 
Jacksov elector of 1S2S and 1832, and fan Buren elec- 
tor of 1836, and then resolve to follow the brielit ex- 
ample, and assist in the friorious work of redeeming 
our beloved, but abused and oppressed country. 

"I SHAKE OFF VAN BUREMSM." 
This exclamation of a New England farmer, 
■who, after a long struggle, burst the bonds of 
party and espoused the cause of the people, 
seems likely to become general througliout the 
Union. Among other important changes of 
this description, the Ohio Confederate brings us 
the unexpected inteUigence that General John 
McElvain, an officer of the regular army dur- 
ing the last war, a memlwr of both the elec- 
toral colleges which in 1828 and in 1832 gave 
the vote of Ohio to General Jackson, a Van 
Buren elector from tlie same state, in 1836. has 
now openly proclaimed his preference for Wm. 
H. Harrison. The reasons for this course are 
thus succinctly stated in General McElvain's 



address to the people of his native state. Let 
all who, like this gallant olFicer, have only been 
restrained by "the chains of party" from avow- 
ing their opinions, imitate him in breaking from 
those ignoble shackles and assuming the attitude 
of a freeman. — Alb. Daili/ Adv. 

Mr. Editor : — It is not because I wish to 
thrust my own opinions before the public un- 
called for, but because others have chosen to 
attach importance to them, that I am induced 
to ask a place in your paper for a few remarks. 
It is known to my fellow-citizens in this part of 
the country, that I have been the early and 
constant advocate of General Jac'kson and his 
administration, and that I contributed my ex- 
ertions to elect his successor. But disapprov- 
ing the course of the Van Buren party in 
many particulars, when General Harrison was 
again brought out in opposition to Mr. Van 
Buren, I made up my mind to support him, 
because I knew him to be honest and capable, 
and worthy of the confidence of the people. 
As others have been pleased to use my name 
freely, because I am determined to act in this 
matter for myself, and in pursuance of high 
duty to my country, I have thought it proper 
thus publicly to announce my determination, 
through your columns, to our Jackson friends, 
by whom I desire to be properly understood. 

In abandoning Mr. Van Buren and giving 
my vote to General Harrison, let no man sup- 
pose that I abandoned my political opinions, or 
my old political friends with whom I co-operated 
in electing General Jackson to the high post 
which he filled with so much credit to himself 
and honour to his country. Those who adhere 
to the principles which the friends of Jackson 
then professed will find me still with them. I 
am aware that a portion of the Van Buren 
party will bitterly condemn my course, and 
charge me with desertion of my principles — in 
the hope of persuading my old friends that I 
have changed. This is not true. My prin- 
ciples are the same, the principles which brought 
General Jackson into power. They may, per- 
haps, set me down as conservative. W^ell, be 
it so. They are at liberty to call me by this or 
any other party name ; but I must have the 
pri\'ilege of voting for whom I please. I am 
resolved not to be collared by party or party 
names. There is no material ditference be- 
tween the great bulk of the two parties, as to 
the manner in which they desire the govern- 
ment to be administered. The dilferences I 
believe to be atnong the politicians on both 
sides, whose object it is to gather a harvest of 
'• fat things" themselves, and equally at the ex- 
pense of the people. 

It is a proud name enough for me, that I can 
simply call myself an .American citizen. I wish 
to be known by no other. I am tired of <lece|>- 
tion. Names arc nothing. Hont^sty of pur- 
pose every thing. I therefore support my old 
general and fellow-soldier, not as a pari}' man, 
but because I know him — and know him to be 
a brave man, a true patriot, and a capable 



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statesman; ami, knowing him as I do, had I 
ten thousand votes ihey should all be his in 
preference to Van Buren. If it was necessary, 
I could go into detail in giving reasons for my 
preference of General Harrison. But I expect 
to meet personally with most of my political 
friends and associates, and will with great plea- 
sure explain verl)ally why I am constrained to 
sustain General Harrison. For the last year I 
have been dissatisfied with the course of mea- 
sures pursued by the administration, and consider 
the legislation of the Van Buren party in the 
state government as pecidiarly objectionable. 
And much as I have disliked the course of the 
leaders of the Whig party, I have longed to see 
and do hope to see Mr. Van Buren leave the 
White House on the 4th of March next. To 
many of my friends these feelings and wishes 
are not new. Yet, so strongly have I been bound 
by the chains of party, that I confess I have 
been wanting in nerve openly to proclaim my 
opinions. I had persuaded myself to slip along 
until the election, in silence and inactivity, un- 
less (which I supposed would probably be the 
fact) I should be called upon to be the Van 
Buren candidate for Congress, which would 
make it necessary for me to declare my opinions 
freely and frankly. But being appointed a 
member of the Democratic State Central Com- 
mittee, I found that neutrality was no longer 
possible. I therefore again reviewed the two 
political parties, (the extremes of both I abhor,) 
and came to the conclusion that there was, in- 
deed, so little difference between the honest men 
of the two parties, as I had served two cam- 
paigns under the old hero of Fort Meigs and 
the Thames, I would go and serve a second 
under Van Buren. In this conclusion I soon 
found I had erred. There were differences, I 
found, between the central committee and my- 
self, on subjects of vital interest to my country, 
which could not be reconciled. 

When I again reviewed the late message of 
the president to Congress, his former dictatorial 
message, and the destructive measures of (lean- 
not say a true Jackson legislature, but) the Ohio 
legislature, which were bringing ruin upon the 
country, it was apparent that, if I retained a 
place in that committee, I should be compelled 
to sanction with my name what my judgment 
condemned and my love of country abhorred. 
Under these circumstances, I plucked up cou- 
rage, (as I had done once before under the 
"Old Granny and Coward," as some call him,) 
and resigned my membership in said committee. 
I now only regret that I had not acted with 
more energy and decision, and at once followed 
tho dictates of my conscience, which day and 
night admonished me of my duty, in regard to 
this important matter, until I almost hated my- 
self for hailing so long between two opinions. 
Perhaps, I ought to ask pardon of the " De- 
mocratic State Central Committee" for my 
wavering conduct— but the shackles are broken, 
and, thank God, I am once more a freeman ! 
And as long as I live I intend to be bo. 



I will only further remark, in conclusion, 
that with my decided approbation of the old 
chief, and my determination to support him by 
all proper means, I cannot share in any pro- 
ceedings which smack of dictation to the people. 
The people, in my opinion, are abundantly 
capable, without the help of dictators, to choose 
their own officers. I desire further to say to all 
my old Jackson friends in the city and sur- 
rounding counties, that my house is open from 
this time to the presidential election — and that 
I will esteem it a fovour, if they will call on 
me, whenever they find it convenient, " They 
will never find my door shut and the string of 
the latch pulled in." We will confer with one 
another, and reason together touching our com- 
mon interests and those of our beloved country. 

I am, sir, your most obedient servant, 

JoHX McElvais. 



There is a loco-foco paper published at Ma- 
rietta, Ohio, by the name of tho " Marietta 
Ant." The Whigs talk of establishing a rival 
paper to be called the Marietta \Jnc\e.— Prentice. 

When Ex-senator Kives, a few months ago, 
came out so openly and powerfully in favour 
of General Harrison, and against the adminis- 
tration, the whole loco-foco i)ress throughout the 
Union exclaimed, " He is fallen !" " He is not 
fallen!" shouts the lion voice of the Old Do- 
minion. — Ibid, 



THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION 
AGAINST THE POOR. 

"But, if tlie effect of this hard money policy upon 
tlie ilebtor class be injurious, it is still more disas* 
troiis, if possible, on the labouring t\^i'ses. Enterprise 
will bi; checked or stopped, einploynient will heconie 
(liflicult, and the poorer classes will be subject to the 
greatest privations and distresses. Heretofore it lias 
been one of the pretensions iind boasts of the domi- 
nant piirty, that theysouRhtlo elevate the poor by 
depriving the rich of undue advantages. Now their 
policy is to reduce the wages of labour, and this ia 
openly avowed ; and it is agreed by them that it is 
necessary to reduce the wages of Jlmtrican labour, 
to the low standard of European labour, in order to 
enable the American manufacturer to enter into a 
successful competition with the European nianufafr 
turer in the sale of their respective fabrics. Thus is 
this dominant party perpetually changing; one day 
cajoling the poor, and fulminating against the rich; 
and the ne.Tt cajoling the rich, and fulminating against 
the poor." — Jilr. Clay's speech against the Sub-treasury 
Bill. 

If the people of the United States be not yet 
convinced that the policy the administration at 
Washington have been pursuing for some years 
past, is destructive of the best interests of the 
country, ruinous to its prosperity, and oppressive 
to the people, and especially to the labouring 
classes, and those of moderate means, neither 
would they be convinced though one rose from 
the dead. For years have they been cajoled with 
the flattering tale that they were to have a cur- 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



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rencv of ^o/c? and silver, and were told that these 
would glisten in the purses and delight the eyes 
of everj' poor man in the country. Nothing, 
they were assured, prevented this but tlie Banks ; 
detitroy these institutions, and the golden age 
would soon return; war, therefore, was waged 
against the banks, and against the rich — " war 
U^ the knife, and the knife to the hilt." But 
what is the result? Banks have been de- 
nounced, the rich have been denounced, all who 
traded on borrowed capital have been denounc- 
ed, and the credit yvstem itself has been de- 
nounced ; and what is the result 1 Where are 
the precious metals we were promised should 
flow up the Mississippi river! Not in the 
vaults of the government, for the government 
is bankrupt, and is compelled to issue treasury 
notes to pay its debts. True, the government 
refuses to receive any thing but specie from the 
people, and pays specie to its oince-holders, but 
it is nevertheless bankrupt ; it has not the gold 
and silver it boasted should be so plenty ; nor 
have the banks, nor the people — it is not in the 
country. 

But have the poor been benefited ? Do they 
find their condition improved 1 Is labour in 
demand, and does it command high prices'! 
On the contrary, arc not the poor depressed? 
Do they not find it difficult to get employment 
even at reduced wages ! This cannot be de- 
nied ; and not only are the poor oppressed, but 
every class of people, farmers, manufacturers, 
merchants, and capitalists suffer, all are made 
poorer and none rich by the present state of 
things. A blight has come over the country — 
clouds darken the horizon — fear and anxiety 
are depicted upon every countenance — no one 
can foresee what the future is to bring forth — 
the most sagacious know not what calculations 
to make, or what to set about; universal distrust 
and despondency pervade the country ; those 
who have any thing to lose, hold on to their 
purse-strings, as if they were in a community 
of robbers, and those who have nothing to lose, 
and nothing but their integrity and industry to 
dejiend upon, look with fearful anxiety to the 
future. 

And these are the gold and silver times the 
government has been promising us! These 
are the fruits of the various "experiments" it 
has been making upon us! Let us go on in 
this way a year or two longer, and our poor 
will be in the condition of the poor of Europe ; 
they v.'ill be obliged to labour for a bare sub- 
sistence, without even the hope of bettering 
their condition. 



PRESENTATION OF THE EAGLE. 

At a great convention held at Columbus, on 
the 22d ultimo, an eagle was brought in by an 
old hunter, who was one of the delegates from 
Crawford county. It had been caught but a 
few days previous, on the battle ground of Fort 
Meigs. After the adjournment of the conven- 
tion, the eagle was given to the Hamilton 



county delegation, to bring to Cincinnati, and 
present to General Harrison. We learn from 
the Cincinnati Republican, that the delegation, 
with a concourse of Harrison Democrats, visited 
North Bend for this purpose on the Gth instant. 
The eagle was sent forward on board of the 
steamer Ben Franklin, escorted by the military 
of Cincinnati, and some thousands of the citi- 
zens. The hale old Log Cabin Chief received 
the vast concourse on the lawn, in front of his 
house. Major Charlea S. Clarkson presented 
the eagle with a very excellent address, to 
which the general replied in his most felicitous 
manner. The Cincinnati Republican says that 
all was joy and enthusiasm. 



General Harrison ! will be the enthusiastic response 
of iht; People, to the following question: — 

WHO WILL GET THE NATION OUT OF 
THE MUD? 

The following dialogue is represented as hav- 
ing taken place a few days ago, between an old 
gentleman from the western part of Illinois, who 
had been a staunch supporter of General Jack- 
son, and even of Martin Van Buren in 1836, 
and his friend in Springfield, a warm-hearted 
Harrison man: — 

" And you think that Old Tip can bring the 
government back to its former purity !" said the 
Harrison man, 

" I do," said his friend — " for I remember 
many years ago, when driving my team to 
Mad River Mills, that my wagon got into a 
inire-hole, from which the horses could not 
draw it. While in this dilemma. General Har- 
rison came riding by. Without delay the old 
Republican dismounted, pulled off his coat, and 
pulling his shoulder to the wheel, helped me to 
get my wagon out of the rut. The people's 
wagon of the government is in the mire-hole 
of corruption, and I firmly believe that General 
Harrison is the only man whose services the 
people will accept in helping them to get it out 
once more on hard ground." 



Talk nf j-eracity .'.' .' where the Glode is concern- 
ed ! that corrupt and prostituted vehicle of mendacity 
and low vituperation would break down should the 
smallest package of truth happen to find its way 
on board. 

A QUESTION OF VERACITY. 

The Globe of Tuesday, stigmatizes General 
Hatirisox as the ^^heru of defeats and fail- 
ures.^'' 

Colonel RrcHAUD M. Johmsoti, now vice, 
president, in his speech in Congress, said of 
General Hariiison that, 

" During the late war he was longer in active 
service than any general olficer ; he was, per- 
haps, oftener in action than any of them, and 

NKVKll SUSTAIXED A DEFEAT." 

The Globe's authority is a federalist, probably 
inimical to the war, and friendly to Proctor and 
the Indians. 



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Our autnority is a Democrat, 

The loco-foco-fe<leral Calhoun coalition charge 
General HAnmsox with having received large 
emoluments in the aggregate from the various 
public offices he has held. 

President MAnisox said: 

"General Harrison has done more for his 
country with less compensation for it, than 
any man living." 



A patriotic and admirable toast, offered at a 
Democratic festival, during the war, October 
1813, by James Madisoji Pouter, brother 
of the governor, and now president judge of 
the twelfth judicial district, given at a Demo- 
cratic celebration, in honour of General Harri- 
son's victories as commander-in-chief of the 
northwestern army. The celebration took place 
on the 23d of October, 1813, as soon as the 
news of the victory of the Thames had reached 
Philadelphia. The account of the celebration 
is given by the Phila(ielphia Standard, abridged 
from the Democratic Press of October 27, 1813. 
Here Ls the toast — Porter was a good "judge" 
then : — 

" By the first vice-president, J. M. POR- 
TER : General Wilkinson — May his success 
be Eq.uAL TO that of the BRAVE HAR- 
RISON, and may Chauncey, like Perry, after 
beating the enemy on water, aid the general to 
beat them on land." 



The IIarrison Indian Summer to be enjoyed by 
a REGENERATED PEOPLE before tile ides of November, 
1840. 

FIRE ON THE PRAIRIES. 
At a great Democratic Harrison meeting held 
recently at Boston, Governor Everett being 
called on, was received with "nine enthusiastic 
and hearty cheers." In the course of his re- 
sponse the following happy metaphor, the In- 
dian summer was expressed by him. He (Go- 
vernor Everett) would, in conclusion, congratu- 
late the meeting upon the auspicious omens 
in favour of their cause everywhere to be seen. 
Many, he said, were wont to attribute the 7/j- 
diansum)iier,to&Mi\imna\ fires on the prairies. 
He had no doubt, if this were the case, that, in 
consequence of the fires which would sweep 
with irresistible might through the boundless 
prairies of the west next November, an Indian 
BUMMER of no ordinary splendour was in store 
for the country. 



The foUnwini; jrii d'esprit squints at the peculiiir 
kind of cravat tr adding use A by Mr. Benton while at 
Chapel Hill. 

Will that "sterling Democrat," Thomas H. 
Benton, (!!!) ever receive justice at the hands 
of his opponents'! — Penn. Dem. 

To that interrogatory Benton himself might 
reply, — " I'll be hanged if I do." — Prentice, 



Going it in fine style among the hardy and br.'iTe 
mountain boys. A cnod many oC Harrison's old sol- 
diers in those, parts, " I guess." 

CCj^A West Virginia pape" says: "Old Tip 
goes it" through that section of the. .state " with 
his tail curled." 



Thomas Jefferson's opinion n{ party names. 
" I consider the party division of whig and 
toht the most wholesome which can exist in 
any government, and well worthy of being 
nourished, to keep out those of a more danger- 
ous character." — Jeffersoii. 



Bread and butter patriotism, or Profession versus 
Practice. 

" When I see an office-holder interfering in 
elections, it occurs to me that he is thinking of 
his salary and his bread, and is therefore an 
unfit adviser of the people." 

Mr. Ghundt i?r the U. S. Senate. 

Weigh this advice, ye impudent and falsifying 
Custom-house and Post-officers!!! who are eternally 
and unblushingly interfering witli the elective fran- 
chise — in opposition to decency— and the express di- 
rections of Thomas Jefferson. 



IMPORTANT TRIAL. 

The following highly important trial appears to 
excite the most intense interest throughout the tJnion. 
We entertain not the shadow of a doubt that the final 
decision will be hailed by a grateful People with 
illuminations, bonfires and festivals, snch as were in- 
dulged in throughout the country during the last war, 
by the true Democratic Republicans, in testifying their 
joy and gratitude for General Harrison's victories 
over our British and savage enemies. 

General Harrison vs. General Ruin. 
Ever since last December term, these two 
celebrated characters have been involved in liti- 
gation before the People's court, and although 
in every trial the jury have found a verdict for 
the plaintilf, in coii-sequence of the overwhelm- 
ing character of the testimony adduced, yet 
the counsel for the defendant have in every 
case moved for a new trial. In December next, 
however, this cause will be carried up to the 
highest court of judicature, when it is confi- 
dently anticipated that Chief Justice Ekctoral 
Collares will pronounce the almost unanimous 
decision of the court in fiivour of confirming 
the verdicts of the several juries in the Peo- 
ple's COURT. 

Counsel for plaintifi". Incorruptible Integrity, 
Undaunted Bravery, Universal Prosperity, 
Emphyriient fur the Poor, and Remu?ij:raiion 
fur Laliuur, Esquires. 

For defendant, Hank Selfishness, Base De- 
traction, Unblushing FalseJwod, Black Ingror 
titude. Loaves and Fishes, and Spoils of Office, 
Esquires. 

It is said that the defendant has paid such 
excessive fees to his counsel as to involve him iu 



absolute bankruptcy 



TIPPECANOE ALMANAC. 



71 



Yc hiack-hcarted and ungrateful traducers of un- 
liaunLed bravery and ivcorruptible patriotism ! hear an- 
uther political opji'nent, but a brave and magnani- 
mouj soldier. 

As additional corroboration of the high testimony 
already a<ldiKed, regarding the battle of the 'I'hanies, 
we subjoin a statement recently made, on that snb- 
Ject, by Colonel John Speed Smith of Kentucky, who 
was one of General Harrison's aids on that occasion. 
Colonel Smith is a gentleman of the highest respecta- 
bility, and has ahrays acted icith the supporters of the 
present adtninistralion. Ilis testimony entirely refutes 
Uie gross niisrcprcsentalion made at the lale ses- 
«ion of the Ohio legislature, in regard to the conduct 
of General Harrison in that battle. 

Similar statements have been published by Colonels 
O'Fallon and Todd, and the Honourable John Cli.im. 
bers, >\lio were also aids to General Harrison, in tlie 
battle (if the Thames. These, we are compelled to 
omit, for want of space, but they have been exten- 
sively circulated tlnough the medium of the newspa- 
l)er press. 

"Richmond, Kij. March 6, 1810. 

"Sin, — Your letter of the 17th ultimo was received 
ini yesterday, in which you state, that, ''It has been 
openly avowed that (;eneral Harrison was at no time 
in the battle of the Thames, nor within two miles of 
tJie battle ground— that the entire plan of operations 
was projected by Colonel R. M. Johnson — that he led 
the troops on to conquest, and that General Harrison 
had no part or lot in the matter. My humiliation is 
deep, tliat a necessity should e.xist, produced by party 
rancor, to prove facts attested by history for more 
Uian a quarter of a century, and which have never 
before been questioned. That ignorance and credu- 
lity abound to an e.xtent to render such baseless 
ft.ssertions available, bespeaks a lamentable state of 
public intelligence, and portends no good to the 
republic. 

"That Colonel Johnson led the van, and brought 
(m the battle, is true— that he behaved with the ut- 
most gallantry, is also true : but your letter contains 
Uie first suggestion which has ever reached me, that 
'the entire plan of operation was projected by him.' 
The magnanimity of Colonel Johnson will repudiate, 
with proud indignation, such an effort to cluster ad- 
ditional laurels upon his brow, thus unjustly torn from 
Uie brow of his general. Colonel Johnson received 
orders, as to the form and manner of charge from 
General Harrison in person, in the face and almost 
In sight of the enemy. The general was with the 
regiment when the charge was sounded. As Johnson 
moved to the charge, the general started for the line 
of infantry, which was drawn up in order of battle. 
He had not gone far, before turning to me, (and to 
Uie best of my recollection, I was the only one of his 
aids then with him,) he said, 'Pursue Colonel John- 
son with your utmost speed — see the effect of his 
cliargc, and the position of the enemy's artillery, and 
return as quickly as possible.' Having e.xecuted this 
order as promptly as practicable, I met liini on my 
return, pressing forward with the front of the infan- 
tjry. Upon reporting, that Colonel Johnson had broke 
Uie enemy's line — that they were surrendering, and 
Uicir c.aniion was in our possession — he e.Tclaimed, 
in an animated tone, 'Come on, my brave fellows. 
Proctor and liis whole army will soon be ours.' Soon 
lU'ler this, an officer, (I believe the late Judge John 
McDowell, of Ohio,) rode up, and reported, that the 
left wing, at or near the crotchet, was suffering 
severely, and in great disorder. This communication 
was made in the hearing of the soldiers. The gene- 
ral contradicted the latter part of the statement in the 
most emphatic manner — but giving order to the next 
in command to push forward, he dashed with the 
ui^senger to tbs indicated pouit of conflict and con- 



fusion, and found tue contest pretty close and severe. 
A portion of Johnson's regiment, owing to the im- 
practicability of the ground for horse, h.id dismount- 
ed, and was fighting on foot and mingled with the 
infantry — which had been, to some extent, the cuusu 
of the confusion. Order was soon restored, and the 
left wing closed to the front, (which foritieil the 
crotchet,) under the personal supervision of General 
Harrison. In the mean time, some of our soldiers 
were shot within less than ten feet of tin; general; 
for the conflict here was sharp and animated, and 
continued for sonie time. \ViIh the exception of thu 
charge made by Colonel Johnson's regiment, General 
Harrison was in the most exposed and dangerous part 
of the battle. 

"It is due to the occasion to relate the following 
incident. The day before the battle, the army was 
impeded in its march by the destruction of a bridge 
across a branch of the Thames, up which it was 
moving, at or near the branch. Colonel Johnson had 
been ordered to cross this stream at some mill.-!, tW(» 
or three miles above the mouth. The rtpad led him by 
the bridge. A portion of his rpgiment had a brush 
with a party of Indians, posted in cabins, on the op- 
posite side of the Thames and the braiu h, and also 
under the thick covert along their banks, to dispute 
the passage of the stream, and harass all attempts to 
repair the bridge. As soon as the liriiis was heard, 
the general hurried to the scene of action, accom- 
panied by a portion of his family, of which Commo- 
dore Perry was one. When I arrived, I found Gene- 
ral Harrison, Commodore Perry, and other officers, (I 
think General Cass was une.) in an open piece of 
ground, near the bridfre. Colonel Johnson had pass- 
ed, and a small portion of his regiment, previously 
dismounted, under the command of Captain Benja- 
min Warfii'ld, and some infantry which had hurried 
up, were carrying on the skirmish. Major Wood had 
been ordered up with a small piece of artillery. (Com- 
modore Perry urged General Harrison to withdraw, 
as he was too much exposed for the commander-in- 
chief. If I mistake not. General Cass united with the 
commodore, and offered to remain and see his orders 
e.Tecuted. The general, with Perry and the residua 
of his suite, started off; but General Harrison went 
but a few steps and returned, and retained his posi- 
tion n(,'ar the cannon, until the Indians wore dislodged 
and driven, the bridge repaired, and the army put in 
motion to cross. During this whole time, he was aa 
much or more exposed than the soldiers, being on 
horseback all the while. The con.modore afterwards 
remonstrated with him against this unnrcessary ex- 
posure, observing, 'that in the open sea he could 
stand lire tolerably well, but there was no fun in 
being shot at by a concealed enemy.' The general 
justified his conduct by saying, 'The general who 
commands republican volunteers, in whose ranks the 
best blood of the country is to be found, must never 
think of his own safety, at least until his troops be- 
come familiar with his disregard of personal danger.' 
Hardihood itself has never denied Perry's courage. 
Chanibers and Todd, of Kentucky, and O'Fallon of 
Missouri, the olner aids of General Harrison at the 
battle of the Thames, are still living, and can give 
you additonal facts, if required. 

"Although it is not in direct response to any part 
of your letter, I must be permitted to say, that my 
intercourse with General Harrison left the conviction 
on my mind, that he was a gentleman, a soldier, and 
a patriot, and I deprecate most sincerely, the injustice 
attempted to be done him, by a portion of that party 
with which 1 have always voted. 
" I am, sir, respectfully, 

"your obedient servant, 

"J. Speed Smith. 
" M. B, Concin, Esq." 



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